DMC 3840 thread Lavender Blue Light
DMC stranded cotton 3840 is officially called “Lavender Blue Light”: a light blue.
- On-screen colour
#B0C0DA- RGB 176, 192, 218
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 77 / 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 3840
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 157Cornflower Blue Vy LtΔE 3.2 · very close
- DMC 341Blue Violet LightΔE 4.1 · very close
- DMC 800Delft Blue PaleΔE 4.2 · very close
- DMC 932Antique Blue LightΔE 5.5 · close
- DMC 156Blue Violet Med LtΔE 6.1 · close
- DMC 3325Baby Blue LightΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 159Blue Gray LightΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 809Delft BlueΔE 6.9 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3840 is easily confused with DMC 157, DMC 341, DMC 800 and DMC 932. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3840?
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.