DMC 3861 thread Cocoa Light
DMC stranded cotton 3861 is officially called “Cocoa Light”: a medium brown.
- On-screen colour
#A68881- RGB 166, 136, 129
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 59 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Cocoa” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3861
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3859Rosewood LightΔE 5.9 · close
- DMC 451Shell Gray DarkΔE 6.2 · close
- DMC 07DriftwoodΔE 8 · close
- DMC 06Medium DriftwoodΔE 9.9 · close
- DMC 3042Antique Violet LightΔE 10.2 · fairly close
- DMC 3064Desert SandΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 223Shell Pink LightΔE 10.5 · fairly close
- DMC 407Desert Sand MedΔE 10.7 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3861 is easily confused with DMC 3859. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3861?
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.