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I use PC Stitch Pro. Love the idea to take a photo or clip art and make my own pattern. I've done a picture of my dogs that came out great! I'm 8 months pregnant and our little boys room is a woods/forest theme. I couldn't find a turkey or a buck that looked good so I downloaded a picture on line of...

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Thanks to all that replied. :-) I went to Michaels yesterday and I saw what all of you meant with the Perel thread. To me the #12 was the thickness of two strands of Embroidery floss and it doesn't have as a smooth, soft feel as the floss. I picked some up anyway to play around with. I also do scrap...

I heard that there are just DMC Cotton Ball in stores - package does not say Perel on it - (which I know is what embroidery floss is made of) but is it the same as Embroidery floss. What's confusing is the numbers are all the same. I thought if it was a different type of thread/floss it would have a...

My son's nursery is forest/woods theme (8 months prego), so I'm doing a buck's head.

Reason why I'm asking is there is more yards in the ball than the floss. Most of the background is this color so price wise it made sense. But if ball is not the same I'll just have to by a lot of the floss.

I have started another cross-stitch pattern (14ct). Embroidery Floss #5200 is a very prominent color in this pattern. So when I went shopping for floss I noticed that there is a DMC Perel Cotton Ball with the number #5200, is this the same? Reason why I ask is when I looked it up on http://www.herrs...