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Digitlanalog wrote:Now, I know someone mentioned about not being able to hand pick colors because everything is in number order. This is what I use. now, It must be from the 80s or something, because my mom claims she bought this when she first started cross stitching when she was preggers with me and I've never seen one for sale. If anyone knows where I can get one, a replacement or one with updated colors I will marry you right now.
If you mean colour cards DMC still do them - in two flavours. One is a printed set of colours and the other has the thread samples. Since DMC revise their colours regularly it would be wise to buy a new one (often numbers are changed or discontinued), although I'm not sure where to buy them outside of the UK!
I've looked for them in the US for ages, but I can't find them at all, even online. The only places to buy them - English language, anyway - are in the UK.
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I Still only have a small stockpile of threads, which lives in a plastic bag in a box for fabric craft. When I start a new project I find the colours I need and put them in a ziplock bag and go buy what I'm missing. I don't mind having the main pile in a jumble, but I am thinking of making a project bag, which can take thread, tools, and possibly patterns so that I'm not just using plastic bags to carry everything around in
This would be a shop that only sends those cards to NA
And here you can look for stores and hope they got that card.
I personally will start to make my own "card" by using small pieces of plastic canvas. I think you can compare two colors you don't have better that way, when you are able to have them right next to each other.
Iwan wrote:I personally will start to make my own "card" by using small pieces of plastic canvas.
I saw a similar thing done in a cross stitch magazine - it was cross stitched samples of each DMC thread on a really small piece of aida. Looked kinda nice!
Wonder if there's a way to score a batch of em wholesale from DMC to sell on to you guys...
RMDC wrote:...I've been stitching at an estimated rate of almost a full BMH per day...
blackmageheart wrote:it was cross stitched samples of each DMC thread on a really small piece of aida.
Just like that on plastic canvas. I thought of 10x5 stitches, doesnt take much space and thread and you got those small pieces around to compare instead of that very big paper thing
Iwan wrote:Just like that on plastic canvas. I thought of 10x5 stitches, doesnt take much space and thread and you got those small pieces around to compare instead of that very big paper thing
Would you do them all on a sheet of plastic canvas or would you cut them out so you have lots of little ones? Actually, doing them on a sheet would be nicer. Loose, I'd end up finding random DMC samples under my daughter's bed or in the bathroom (there's a wormhole in my house - don't worry it's a local phenomenon).
But the new colour cards aren't so big, really They have little rectangles with thread around them rather than the old style books - which kinda remind me of the hair colour sample books in the salon I used to work in XD
RMDC wrote:...I've been stitching at an estimated rate of almost a full BMH per day...
I would cut them and collect them in a thread box. But you could also glue a felt backing to it and use velcro to attach it to a paper board or a pice of fabric.
Digitlanalog wrote:Now, I know someone mentioned about not being able to hand pick colors because everything is in number order. This is what I use. now, It must be from the 80s or something, because my mom claims she bought this when she first started cross stitching when she was preggers with me and I've never seen one for sale. If anyone knows where I can get one, a replacement or one with updated colors I will marry you right now.
If you mean colour cards DMC still do them - in two flavours. One is a printed set of colours and the other has the thread samples. Since DMC revise their colours regularly it would be wise to buy a new one (often numbers are changed or discontinued), although I'm not sure where to buy them outside of the UK!
OOO yes! This is exactly what I'm looking for, Thank you! Now to see if they ship to the US! ^^
The one you posted Iwan, would be ideal except I think that one is just a printed color card, I like to see the actual thread so I can hold one up to it to see how it matches =D
Thank you guys for all the resources!!! <3 <3 <3
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