DMC 334 thread Baby Blue Medium
DMC stranded cotton 334 is officially called “Baby Blue Medium”: a medium blue.
- On-screen colour
#739FC1- RGB 115, 159, 193
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 64 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Baby Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 334
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 334 is easily confused with DMC 826 and DMC 322. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 334?
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.