DMC 224 thread Shell Pink Very Light
DMC stranded cotton 224 is officially called “Shell Pink Very Light”: a light pink.
- On-screen colour
#EBB7AF- RGB 235, 183, 175
- Family
- Pinks and fuchsias
- Lightness
- 79 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Shell Pink” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 224
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 224 is easily confused with DMC 3771, DMC 758, DMC 3716, DMC 3779, DMC 754, DMC 957, DMC 3824 and DMC 760. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 224?
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.