DMC 3811 thread Turquoise Very Light
DMC stranded cotton 3811 is officially called “Turquoise Very Light”: a very light teal.
- On-screen colour
#BCE3E6- RGB 188, 227, 230
- Family
- Teals and turquoises
- Lightness
- 88 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Turquoise” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3811
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 828Sky Blue Vy LtΔE 2.1 · almost identical
- DMC 3761Sky Blue LightΔE 3.9 · very close
- DMC 3766Peacock Blue LightΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 827Blue Very LightΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 964Sea Green LightΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 775Baby Blue Very LightΔE 7.4 · close
- DMC 747Peacock Blue Vy LtΔE 7.5 · close
- DMC 927Gray Green LightΔE 8.6 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3811 is easily confused with DMC 828 and DMC 3761. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3811?
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.