DMC 161 thread Blue Gray
DMC stranded cotton 161 is officially called “Blue Gray”: a medium blue.
- On-screen colour
#7880A4- RGB 120, 128, 164
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 54 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Blue Gray” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 161
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 793Cornflower Blue MedΔE 2.3 · almost identical
- DMC 3839Lavender Blue MedΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 799Delft Blue MediumΔE 7.3 · close
- DMC 3838Lavender Blue DarkΔE 8.3 · close
- DMC 155Blue Violet Med DarkΔE 8.9 · close
- DMC 931Antique Blue MediumΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 3746Blue Violet DarkΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 794Cornflower Blue LightΔE 9.4 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 161 is easily confused with DMC 793. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 161?
A skein of DMC stranded cotton is 8 m long and splits into 6 strands. Stitched with 2 strands on 14-count Aida, it covers about 1,800 cross stitches. For your own chart, the cross-stitch calculator gives the number of skeins and the finished size.