DMC 986 thread Forest Green Vy Dk
DMC stranded cotton 986 is officially called “Forest Green Vy Dk”: a dark green.
- On-screen colour
#405230- RGB 64, 82, 48
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 33 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Forest Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 986
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 935Avocado Green DkΔE 4.4 · very close
- DMC 936Avocado Grn V DkΔE 5.6 · close
- DMC 890Pistachio Grn Ult V DΔE 8.3 · close
- DMC 934Avocado Grn BlackΔE 8.4 · close
- DMC 3051Green Gray DkΔE 9 · close
- DMC 3346Hunter GreenΔE 9.1 · close
- DMC 319Pistachio Grn Vy DkΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 3362Pine Green DkΔE 9.4 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 986 is easily confused with DMC 935 and DMC 936. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 986?
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.