I purchased a new pattern from NY KIDS PLANET the pattern was for a baby/children’s striped cardigan. I messaged the customer service personnel, but although they said It was bright green it had dusty rose and cream and beige. There is no dusty pink! I have been looking for the right shade of green Can people on this forum let me know your opinion on the shade of green? Here is the link:- https://i.etsystatic.com/icm/43a1df/894696595/icm_fullxfull.894696595_lryjmisb27ksw0c8gssk.pdf?version=0
Thankyou Sarah
It looks like a kind of spring green or apple green. There seem to be several brands that carry that color and in an aran weight (Knit Picks Comfy Aran).
Lovecrafts Paintbox Aran and Bernat Premium are a little lighter but also come spring green. I searched for machine washable but you can search more generally.
It’s a cute sweater but the sample is obviously not in the colors that the pattern describes. Go figure.
Did you want it to look like the photo?
Green, cream and kind of mushroomy beige yellow?
I don’t know what kind of fibre you want but here is a result from a search on wool warehouse which might work if you like acrylic.
I used wool warehouse because i find the filter feature useful. Go to yarns then filter colour green, then filter yarn weight aran. The result shows all the greens, from there i chose one i thought close then looked at what other colours the yarn comes in.
This is cygent yarn, aran, spring (green) and then perhaps choose cream or white for the lightest yarn and maybe sage or harvest as the third colour. There is also a blush (dusky pink) if you wanted that.
The photo on the pattern looks like a spring green with a light cream/white and a pale yellow. The cygnet doesnt have a suitable yellow but depending what you like i do think one of the other colours would look lovely (latte and honey are also nice with that spring green but a bolder effect than the sample). For a lighter effect maybe spring, white and cream.
Here’s an option i saw in cotton. Perhaps parrot or wasabi (both bold greens) then there are a number of options for white, off white, cream, apricot cream, then the third could be a pale yellow such as light yellow, vanilla, lemon sorbet. There are a number of other colours would also look great with the green.
Using the filter i described there were 17 pages of results, i went through the first 7 just looking at greens, there might be more suitable results in the later pages. You have to whizz past the variagated colours which isn’t too much of a chore.
Cute cardigan, i hope you find yarns you like. Don’t forget to check the yardage you need and swatch as the gauge might be different with a substituted yarn.
Edit to add another option, the kiwi or apple green in this perhaps, and there are several options for the white/cream and the pale yellow too.
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