Floss Boss: The Ultimate Cross Stitch Thread Conversion & Colour Matching Guide

Stop Googling thread conversions. Everything you need is right here.Floss Boss is the most comprehensive cross stitch thread conversion and colour matching reference ever published in a single volume — covering 482 DMC colours and 25 thread brands in one beautifully organised book.Whether you have a stash full of Anchor, a drawer of Weeks Dye Works, or a half-finished kit with missing Bucilla threads, Floss Boss gives you the answers instantly. No more hunting across five different websites, only to find contradictory information.What's inside:482 full-colour swatch cards — one for every DMC solid colour, showing hex, RGB and CMYK values, quality-rated equivalents in all 25 brands, and the four closest neighbouring DMC colours25 brand conversion chapters — forward (DMC → brand) and reverse (brand → DMC) lookup tables for Anchor, Appletons, Cosmo, ISPE, J&P Coats, Madeira, Mayflower, Presencia, Puppets, Sullivans, Venus, Ginnie Thompson Flower Thread, Kreinik, NPI Silk, Soie d'Alger, Splendor, Classic Colorworks, The Gentle Art, Sulky, Valdani, Weeks Dye Works, Bucilla, Candamar, Diamond Dots and DimensionsQuick Index — all 482 DMC colours with the 7 most popular brand equivalents on one fast-reference spreadQuality ratings — every conversion rated Excellent, Close or Approximate using mathematical colour science, so you know exactly how confident to be in any substitutionDMC range history — complete timeline of additions and discontinuations, confirming this book covers the full current international rangeVariegated to solid equivalents — all 70 DMC Color Variation threads mapped to their solid colour componentsDiscontinued DMC colours — 44 discontinued solid colours with recommended replacementsCross stitch starter guide — fabric sizing, thread preparation, stitching techniques and finishingGlossary — 55+ terms clearly definedThis is the reference book that should have existed years ago. Designed by a cross stitch pattern designer with 35 years of stitching experience, built with precision colour data, and laid out for fast, practical use at the stitching table.Colour data verified using professional colour measurement. Brand information current as of 2026. Read more