2014-07: I’m kind of (OK, very) annoyed with this hat… mostly due to the colour palette in the Baby Jaquards!

I have 2 Jaquard yarns from Bernat - the purple one & this one (blue, cream, brown, & green). I also have many balls of Bernat Softee Baby - cream, pink, blue, brown & pink & blue marl.

One might assume that these 2 baby yarns (by the same company, no less) would coordinate well together. This is certainly appealing to customers… alternating variegated yarn with solid colour yarn is a great way to make yarn stretch further - especially when companies tend to make the special yarns more expensive (and often in a sneaky way like making the balls of special yarn cost the same as the solid colours BUT have less yardage!).

But they just plain DON’T match!!

At first I tried the brown Softee Baby yarn as a hat brim. Ew! It clashed very badly with the blue-cream-green-brown Jaquards yarn because the browns are very different (one is more reddish). After finishing the top, I ripped back the brim & tried again in the cream Softee Baby yarn. Better, but still noticeably un-matching. I may leave it (the blue would be worse, I’m sure) or maybe tote it around to the yarn stores next time I go & try to find a coordinating yarn in a completely different company (this is what I’m doing with the Blue Marl hat I’m also trying to knit).

2014-08-25: Well, I brought the hat to my LYS, and we managed to find a few balls of yarn that matched in colour (this took a lot of searching effort for me & the 2 kiddos helping me). But when I started knitting with them, the texture was just all wrong. :(
But then I saw a ball of Softee baby yarn in green (did not have that colour in my stash). And it looked like it’d match OK… you tell me, ‘cause that’s what I went with (& added a little bit of blue anyways, doesn’t look too bad in a small amount).
Not my best work, but hey, it’s still a cute hat.