limited colour palette for clothing, art, decorating, and even gardening

I adore working with a limited palette.  Be it painting my home, choosing flowers for a garden display, weaving cloth, building capsule wardrobes, or painting art.  Having just a few harmonious colours to choose from gives me a freedom that I can't find when there are too many choices.  

A limited palette can be one colour, or six, or twelve or... any variation.  The limited part is that it's not infinite.  I often choose three or four colours because I can then mix them to get a range within the palette.

For example, today I'm playing with these three



I don't know what I'm going to paint yet (any suggestions?)



What do you use a limited palette for?  What do you look for when choosing the colours?  

Here's another limited palette I played with recently while painting my wizzard that nicole made.

I've found that limiting the colour range has been very helpful in my clothing alteration. By sticking to a few colour groups, it becomes very easy to match and combine different thrift finds and end up with something that looks cohesive. ( I also try to keep those colour choices to be ones that I like and are flattering) It just cuts way down on ending up with great pieces that are too small on their own but would need me to pay new fabric prices to get something that would work with them.

I also often use small colour ranges when putting together gallery walls or designing the art in a room. Colour is the easiest way to tie a group together, but style or content can work. We tend to have enough that I can often manage at least 1,if not 2 tie-ins for most groups. ( or I can change a frame or mat to get them to fit in better)
I'm old enough now that I can resist picking up some pieces that I really like if they will not go with any of my existing, general colour groups.

Here is a study done from a sketch in this hobbit sketchbook in the limited palette I shared in the first post.



It's a very interesting colour combination with the bright yellow and the two muted colours.