Ok, so that's not the official name on the DMC chart, but that's the color I'm going with for the custom Janet Granger rug.  It was once white, but after years in my grandmother's home, it became not-so-white.  I've inherited many of her craft supplies since she's no longer with us, and I found a whole bunch of white embroidery floss in her stash.

After getting rid of the 712 and 746, I needed something a little brighter.  I looked at the overdyed, 4150, ecru colorations a few of you suggested based on my last post, but they were all as dark as the initial 712.

Here's the new white...er...smoky white (upper left corner).  It fills in well and doesn't compete.  I think we have a winner.

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Also, strangely enough, it seems thicker than the dyed flosses, so I need only one strand per square instead of the two I had used for the rest of the stitching.  That also translates into faster stitching time...always a good thing.  This is 4.25 hours of white stitching, 101 hours total stitching.

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