Stylecraft Special DK colour chart: all shade codes

Every current shade, by code

The table runs in shade-code order. The colour family is our own rough, plain-English grouping, made from the shade names and Stylecraft’s product photos. It isn’t Stylecraft’s classification and it’s approximate: a dozen shades sit between two families, and we’ve marked those as borderline in the notes. Look at a real swatch before you commit.

We haven’t handled every shade ourselves. The codes and names are Stylecraft’s, as listed on its website.

Which shades are new

Stylecraft added 20 shades in October 2024, coded 2170 to 2189, from Poppy to Tea Green. Gemma at Home lists all 20 with their codes in a post dated 28 October 2024, with notes on how each looks in person.

On 1 October 2026, Stylecraft’s page marked three shades as NEW: Indigo Mix 2192, Strawberry Mix 2193 and Honey Mix 2194. Check Stylecraft’s own photos for how each mix looks before you order.

How we checked the list

Stylecraft’s Special DK page loads more shades each time you press Show Me More. We loaded the full list and counted 125 shades, from 1001 to 2194. Wool Warehouse’s Special DK all-colours page gives a shade count of 125 and the same 125 codes.

Every name matched except one: Stylecraft calls 1807 Hint of Silver and Wool Warehouse calls it A Hint of Silver. Wool Warehouse listed Special DK at £2.35 for a 100g ball of 295m, checked 1 October 2026.

Shade code or dye lot?

The shade code is the four-digit number that names the colour, such as 1128 for Charcoal. The dye lot is a separate number for one batch. Wool Warehouse’s guide to dye lots describes them as batches of yarn dyed in the same vat at the same time, and says many labels print the dye lot number.

Two balls can share a shade code and still differ slightly if they come from different dye lots. For a large area in one colour, buy all the balls at once so they’re more likely to match. Order by code as well as name, because a name such as Grey is easy to mix up with Graphite, Charcoal or Warm Grey.

Picking a palette from the list

Use the family counts below to see where the range is deep. Green, blue, purple and pink each have 14 or more shades, so a gradient within one family is easy. White and cream has only two, so for a soft neutral you may want to look across beige and grey as well. The families are our approximate grouping, so treat the counts as a rough guide.

For a temperature blanket, our temperature blanket planner turns ten years of real daily highs for your UK town into colour bands and balls per colour. Once you have a shade list, the colour-rounding explorer shows how the number of colours changes how many whole balls you buy.

The Special DK shades we link on Amazon

HazelLoop currently links single balls of four Special DK shades on Amazon: Charcoal 1128, White 1001, Silver 1203 and Lipstick 1246. We also link a pack of five balls in Burgundy 1035. They’re marked in the table. For any other shade, search the shop of your choice for Stylecraft Special DK and the four-digit code, then check the code on the selected option before you pay.

Common questions

Sources and scope

• www.stylecraft-yarns.co.uk/yarns/special-dk/
• www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/yarn/stylecraft-special-dk-all-colours
• gemmaathome.co.uk/new-shades-of-stylecraft-special-dk-october-2024/
• blog.woolwarehouse.co.uk/2024/09/09/a-yarn-lovers-guide-to-dye-lots/

Sources checked 1 October 2026. Label facts come from the linked references; worked purchase examples and arithmetic are our own illustrations.