DMC 3839 thread Lavender Blue Med
DMC stranded cotton 3839 is officially called “Lavender Blue Med”: a medium blue.
- On-screen colour
#7B8EAB- RGB 123, 142, 171
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 59 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Lavender Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3839
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 799Delft Blue MediumΔE 3.1 · very close
- DMC 931Antique Blue MediumΔE 5.4 · close
- DMC 794Cornflower Blue LightΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 161Blue GrayΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 793Cornflower Blue MedΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 160Blue Gray MediumΔE 8 · close
- DMC 322Baby Blue DarkΔE 8.1 · close
- DMC 334Baby Blue MediumΔE 8.1 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3839 is easily confused with DMC 799 and DMC 931. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3839?
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.