I just bought the "Quick & Easy CrossStitch" magazine, Issue 146. There is a free giant kit of poinsettias with thread already loaded into a thread sorter! Sounds great right? Well, the thread is not on the sorter in the same order as it is listed on the color/symbol chart! Ugh! Some of the colors are so close together! I compared them with the DMC threads that I had to try to match the thread with the symbol. Here is what I have come up with.

First turn your thread sorter so that the magazines logo is facing up and the threads are hanging out of the sorter to the right-hand side. Here is what I think is the order of the colors by Anchor and DMC # :

ANCHOR/DMC

1009/3770 (light peach)
1098/3801 (dark melon-pink)
230/910 (medium green)
238/703 (light green)
683/500 (dark green)
111/3837 (purple)
109/209 (light purple)
069/3803 (dark maroon)
001/blanc (white)
298/972 (bright yellow)
311/3827 (light yellow)
062/603 (light pink)
033/892 (light melon-pink)
062/603 (dark pink)
1005/498 (red)