Bernat Blanket yarn colors (22 solid shades)

About Bernat Blanket

Bernat Blanket is a soft, super bulky chenille yarn made for throws, cushions, baskets and chunky blankets. It works up fast on a large hook, which is why it became the default for quick, cozy projects. The regular skeins come in a 150 g (5.3 oz) and a 300 g (10.5 oz) put-up.

This chart covers the 22 solid shades with their manufacturer numbers. The number comes from the SKU, the same five digits printed on the band, so you can match it against a pattern or a shop listing.

These hex values are approximate

No yarn maker publishes sRGB values, so each value on this page was measured from Bernat's own product photograph of the skein. The measurement finds the skein in the frame, masks out the paper band across its middle, drops the shaded underside and the sheen, and takes the dominant color of what remains.

That is repeatable, and it is still a photograph: uncalibrated, compressed and showing one dye lot. Chenille is harder than most yarns, because the pile catches light differently from every angle. Relative relationships between shades hold up. Absolute values do not.

What is not here

Multicolor, heathered and variegated shades are held back, because a swatch promises that a block worked in that color will look like it, and these cannot keep that promise. Discontinued colors are left out too. The 150 g and 300 g shade sets are combined, and Blanket Extra Thick is a separate yarn with its own numbers.

Planning a project with these shades

Chenille hides stitch definition, so a chunky blanket or throw reads as color and texture and not as fine detail. Pick the palette first, and keep the number of shades small. Buy all the yarn for one color at once, because skeins from different production runs can differ slightly.

The crochet blanket calculator estimates how many skeins a blanket needs, and the crochet pattern maker turns a picture into a chart in your chosen shades.

The other yarn charts

• Bernat Super Value — 60 worsted acrylic shades, strong on heathers.
• Red Heart Super Saver — 72 solid shades, the usual graphghan default.
• Caron One Pound — 46 shades in a big 454 g skein.