DMC 932 thread Antique Blue Light
DMC stranded cotton 932 is officially called “Antique Blue Light”: a light blue, muted.
- On-screen colour
#A2B5C6- RGB 162, 181, 198
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 73 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Antique Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 932
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 932 is easily confused with DMC 3755, DMC 813 and DMC 3840. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 932?
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.