Out With the Old and In With the New Is Not Always a Good Thing!

My friend Carol suggested that we once again do a two person reproduction sampler SAL.  The sampler we chose is Sarah E. Pope which was reproduced by Sheepish Designs.  I'm not sure how long ago the sampler was reproduced, but it must have been quite a while ago because the chart is numbered 4 and the symbols are all hand drawn.  (What an undertaking that must have been!)

Sarah stitched her sampler in 1773, and it now belongs to the Newport (Rhode Island) Historical Society.  The main focus of the sampler is a large house in the center with trees on either side. 

There are five wonderful verses.

Duty fear and love we owe to good above. 

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the lord she shall be praised.

Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gate.

Give frist to god the flowr of thy youth take for thy guide the holy word of truth adorn thy soul with grace price wisdom more than all the pearls upon the indian shore.

Labour for peace chuse to contend with none let reason with sweet calmness keep the throne treading fierce wrath and lawless passions down the grace of mekness is a womans crown.
  

I started stitching my version a few days ago, but lo and behold I have discovered that some of the DMC thread colors have changed dramatically.  For example DMC 3072 was described as Light Blue on the chart, and today the same thread number is described as Very Light Beaver Gray.  Yikes!  On the chart DMC 535 is described as Dark Purple, but today it's described as Very Light Ash Gray.  Yikes!

  

Here is what I'm facing.

DMC #            New Color Description       Old Color Description

310                 Black                                        Black

407                 Dark Desert Sand                  Rose

433                 Medium Brown                      Rust

435                 Very Light Brown                  Light Rust

452                 Medium Shell Gray               Light Purple

500                 Very Dark Blue Green          Dark Green

501                 Dark Blue Green                     Light Green

535                 Very Light Ash Gray              Dark Purple

610                 Dark Drab Brown                    Brown

739                 Very Light Tan                       Cream

744                 Yellow-Pale                              Yellow

924                 Very Dark Gray Green           Dark Blue

935                 Dark Avocado Green              Medium Green

950                 Light Desert Sand                   Light Pink

951 and 739                                                      Creamy Pink

3024               Very Light Brown Gray         Light Gray

3032               Medium Mocha Brown          Tan

3072               Very Light Beaver Gray         Light Blue

As you can see, I'm faced with quite a challenge.  I've tried to find a conversion between the old DMC thread colors and the new ones, but I haven't had any luck so I'm having to rely on the chart cover photo for guidance.  I seem to be doing a lot of stitching, frogging, and restitching.  I'm sure it will be worth it in the end.

If anyone has recently stitched this sampler and was able to discover the new thread numbers, please let me know.

Sorry this photo isn't better--I was too lazy to go downstairs and get my camera so I just took this one on my tablet.  I'll take a better one once I've made more progress.