DMC 3842 thread Wedgewood Vry Dk
DMC stranded cotton 3842 is officially called “Wedgewood Vry Dk”: a dark blue.
- On-screen colour
#32667C- RGB 50, 102, 124
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 41 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
DMC threads closest to 3842
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 824Blue Very DarkΔE 4 · very close
- DMC 517Wedgewood DarkΔE 5.8 · close
- DMC 312Baby Blue Very DarkΔE 6.2 · close
- DMC 3808Turquoise Ult Vy DkΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 930Antique Blue DarkΔE 7.3 · close
- DMC 311Wedgewood Ult VyDkΔE 7.5 · close
- DMC 803Baby Blue Ult Vy DkΔE 7.6 · close
- DMC 798Delft Blue DarkΔE 8.2 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3842 is easily confused with DMC 824 and DMC 517. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3842?
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.