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Over-dyed Opinions
3 May 2006
It’s Wednesday and time for the SBQ! 
Today’s question is:
Do you or have you stitched with over-dyed threads? (Weeks Dye Works, The Gentle Art Sampler Threads, Six Strand Sweets, etc.) If so, what is your opinion concerning them? If not, why not?
In the past when I had a pattern that called for over-dyed threads I just substituted DMC because I didn’t think over-dyed threads were so easy to come by here in Germany. However, I recently discovered that one of my ONSs has Weeks Dye Works and the Caron Collection in stock and the other will order over-dyed floss per request.
This discovery made me start looking at patterns that call for over-dyed floss in a new light and made me intensely curious to try them. So I did.
Unfortunately, as you can read here, I wasn’t too impressed: At roughly 3 times the cost of a skein of DMC (in Europe) these threads are expensive. This in and of itself wouldn’t be a big deal if I got the variation in color that I had hoped for, but I didn’t.
I am not going to say that I will never stitch with over-dyed floss again, but if I do I think I will take the advice of some of my commentators and make sure the project is large enough that I will actually notice color variations in the floss.
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