DMC 3851 thread Green Bright Lt
DMC stranded cotton 3851 is officially called “Green Bright Lt”: a medium teal.
- On-screen colour
#49B3A1- RGB 73, 179, 161
- Family
- Teals and turquoises
- Lightness
- 67 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3851
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3849Teal Green LightΔE 1.3 · almost identical
- DMC 958Sea Green DarkΔE 1.5 · almost identical
- DMC 992Aquamarine LtΔE 5 · close
- DMC 959Sea Green MedΔE 5.4 · close
- DMC 503Blue Green MedΔE 8.1 · close
- DMC 993Aquamarine Vy LtΔE 9.8 · close
- DMC 943Green Bright MdΔE 9.8 · close
- DMC 3816Celadon GreenΔE 10.1 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3851 is easily confused with DMC 3849, DMC 958, DMC 992 and DMC 959. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3851?
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.