Change of dye lots in middle of project

If you decide you want the old lot, I'll check and see how much I have

I have a partial skien of that color, but don't have any idea if it will match. I will send it to you if you wish to try it. Email me if you do. Frances

I am going from memory, but I dont think 762 was part of the dye changes caused by carcinogens. DMC do a fantastic job of keeping colors the samed, but they are not perfect. I doubt that getting other skeins of DMC

Yikes! I think with that much stitching done, I'd try using one strand of the new color over the stitching already done to sort of "blend" the two together. You could do maybe two rows of "blended" stitches to get the two colors a little further apart. The extra strand on those areas shouldn't make a difference.

If you want to get really picky about it, you could shade it even further by doing a half cross on the stitch next to the full cross stitch. Is that a muddy-enough explanation? :) Let me know if you can't figure this out and I'll try again.

A former rctn member, Kathy Dyer's site, although not updated for quite awhile, is still accessible. Here's the page with the dye changes:

Joan

Thank you everyone for your offers - Since I used only one partial skein of a darker 762 and all my "new" 762's match. I think I will try to blend. I hadn't thought of only ripping out part of the stitch and blending with the new over top. That sounds like something I can try. I will check Kathy's website and see if she has the dye lot changes. But, from now on --- I will be very careful in pulling from my stash.

Thanks again! Denise

Ah, but that's the beauty of it! You shouldn't *have* to rip out the old stitches, just do the single strand over the top!

I've even done a whole cross stitch with 2 strands over the top of a wrong color and you can't tell the difference in thickness.

Joan