Help with converting colors

Problem is, DMC doesn't have 17 shades of purple; they have about half that, so you're going to either have to use one color for multiple symbols and/or create blends. Maybe you could blend the original pinks with a light, medium and dark purple to get purplish-pink? Remember, there's reddish-purple and bluish-purple, and they don't necessarily look good together, so you may wind up trying to collapse those 17 shades of pink into only 4 or 5 purples (and what blends you can create between them).

Be that as it may, the process for converting colors is to first pull the original colors and line them up in light-to-dark order. Then pull your substitute colors and line them up in light-to-dark order. Maybe, for this project, consider going "around the corner" into purple-tinged shades that we would normally think of as pale greys/blues/browns and see if you can tuck those into the odd highlight or shadow to expand your palette a bit. (Remember when I was working on Glad Rags and looked at that blend of navy and dark brown and convinced myself that Marc had to have done that after a night of heavy drinking? But in the light of day, had to admit it was an inspired combo.)

Anchor has a slightly wider range of purples than DMC, but again, you're not going to get 17 subtle gradations of color "off the rack".

Try this on-line site. Use it to find the color families in the original pattern, then you have a clue what the color "values" are, i.e.lt, dk, med. Then you can substitue another family in the same value.

I also have an Excel spreadsheet where I have sorted the DMC colors by both number and color family. I use the numbers to find the family and then cross-reference into the color family list to get the other members of that family. I too often convert patterns from one main color to another, e.g. a red rose to a yellow rose. If you want a copy I would be have to send it to you in an attachment.

Rachel in Scottsdale