Change of dye lots in middle of project

Help -
I recently started a Mystic Stitch project. When I gathered my
supplies I had 3 bobbins of 762 DMC in my stash. I never thought to
look and make sure they all matched - and I forgot about the change in
dye lots. I only used one skein of the old lot. All the other stitches
in that color are from the new dye lot. Needless to say, I am on the
4th page (of 15 pages) of instructions and I noticed that the colors
were not matching. I thought it was my lighting and continued. I ran
out of that bobbin and started a new skein of floss. It didn't match
and I have a "block" of lighter color where the new began. Now what do
I do? I have approx 1000 completed stitches in the old dye lot and
have some VERY obvious lines from the 3rd to the 4th page that will
abut the 5th page. Do I rip it all out (not something I really want to
do) or do I "feather" the old dye lot color and make it make sense?

Does anyone have a list of the DMC dye lot changes that I can print so
this never happens again?

Thanks - Denise

On 3/27/08 4:23 PM, in article
, "deniseb"
wrote:

Help -
I recently started a Mystic Stitch project. When I gathered my
supplies I had 3 bobbins of 762 DMC in my stash. I never thought to
look and make sure they all matched - and I forgot about the change in
dye lots. I only used one skein of the old lot. All the other stitches
in that color are from the new dye lot. Needless to say, I am on the
4th page (of 15 pages) of instructions and I noticed that the colors
were not matching. I thought it was my lighting and continued. I ran
out of that bobbin and started a new skein of floss. It didn't match
and I have a "block" of lighter color where the new began. Now what do
I do? I have approx 1000 completed stitches in the old dye lot and
have some VERY obvious lines from the 3rd to the 4th page that will
abut the 5th page. Do I rip it all out (not something I really want to
do) or do I "feather" the old dye lot color and make it make sense?

Does anyone have a list of the DMC dye lot changes that I can print so
this never happens again?

Thanks - Denise


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

C

On Mar 27, 4:23�pm, deniseb wrote:
Help -
I recently started a Mystic Stitch project. When I gathered my
supplies I had 3 bobbins of 762 DMC in my stash. I never thought to
look and make sure they all matched - and I forgot about the change in
dye lots. I only used one skein of the old lot. All the other stitches
in that color are from the new dye lot. Needless to say, I am on the
4th page (of 15 pages) of instructions and I noticed that the colors
were not matching.
Thanks - Denise

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

deniseb ) writes:
Help -
I recently started a Mystic Stitch project. When I gathered my
supplies I had 3 bobbins of 762 DMC in my stash. I never thought to
look and make sure they all matched - and I forgot about the change in
dye lots. I only used one skein of the old lot. All the other stitches
in that color are from the new dye lot. Needless to say, I am on the
4th page (of 15 pages) of instructions and I noticed that the colors
were not matching. I thought it was my lighting and continued. I ran
out of that bobbin and started a new skein of floss. It didn't match
and I have a "block" of lighter color where the new began. Now what do
I do? I have approx 1000 completed stitches in the old dye lot and
have some VERY obvious lines from the 3rd to the 4th page that will
abut the 5th page. Do I rip it all out (not something I really want to
do) or do I "feather" the old dye lot color and make it make sense?

Does anyone have a list of the DMC dye lot changes that I can print so
this never happens again?

Thanks - Denise

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
762 from other people is going to solve the problem. Sorry, and I hope,
for your sake, that I am wrong. Jim.

On Mar 27, 3:23 pm, deniseb wrote:
Do I rip it all out (not something I really want to
do) or do I "feather" the old dye lot color and make it make sense?

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.

Does anyone have a list of the DMC dye lot changes that I can print so
this never happens 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:

http://home.comcast.net/~kathydyer/n..._color_changes

Good luck!

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

On Mar 28, 10:52 am, deniseb wrote:
I hadn't thought of only ripping out part of the stitch and
blending with the new over top.

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