DMC 906 thread Parrot Green Md
DMC stranded cotton 906 is officially called “Parrot Green Md”: a medium green, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#7FB335- RGB 127, 179, 53
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 67 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Parrot Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 906
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 703ChartreuseΔE 2.6 · very close
- DMC 470Avocado Grn LtΔE 5.8 · close
- DMC 702Kelly GreenΔE 8.1 · close
- DMC 704Chartreuse BrightΔE 8.2 · close
- DMC 581Moss GreenΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 471Avocado Grn V LtΔE 10.7 · fairly close
- DMC 3012Khaki Green MdΔE 11.5 · fairly close
- DMC 166Moss Green Md LtΔE 12.3 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 906 is easily confused with DMC 703 and DMC 470. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 906?
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.