Spiced Knit Afghan or What Was I thinking?

One day while I was perusing the book store I saw this blanket draped across a chair and I fell in love.  In love.  It was big and thick and had these nice soothing colors.  As I was fondling it, the owner told me it was a class given by a local knitter and was I interested in signing up?  Well of course!  Can't you see how I love it so?  Sign me up now!

The first class was a color class.  Because the blanket has four colors instead of three, the teacher felt it would be good for all us to come in and work with some samples of the colors available.  She said it was much easier to match two or three colors, but when it comes to four it's a bit more difficult.  She was right.  It was very hard to find four colors that were complimentary.  I was surprised by how difficult.

I'm really into orange right now (and that may have been my downfall) so I started with orange and went from there.  I genuinely love the colors I chose, but together I'm not sure I positively like them in this blanket???

The pattern is free from Lion Brand.  You can find it here.  I used the yarn they suggest which is Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick.  The four colors are Fig, Apricot, Grass, and Raspberry.

What do you think?