NEW Paintbox Crafts 6 Strand Embroidery Floss to color your world!

Published on September 8, 2026

Raise your hands in the air, Paintbox 6 Strand Embroidery Floss has landed, YIPPEE! Exclusive to LoveCrafts, Paintbox Crafts brings you 200 colorful skeins of mood-boosting shades, perfect for all your embroidery, cross stitch, and needlecraft projects. Made from 100% Egyptian cotton thread, it's oh so soft to touch and a dream to stitch with. Plus, it comes in earth-friendly recycled packaging. It's time to color your world, makers!

Why Paintbox Crafts 6 Strand Embroidery Floss is perfect for you, yes you!

🌈 A rainbow of choice

Pick from 200 shades to create all your wonderful embroidery, cross stitch, and stitching projects.

🎨 Unique color packs

Can't decide? Choose a 16 or 48 skein color pack in a range of mood-boosting shades, or treat yourself to the ultimate 200 skein pack.

Why not get started with our Paintbox Crafts Beginner Pack, a beautiful little box of 16 skeins of your stash essentials - think Cotton Candy, Royal Blue, Sunshine Yellow, Pure Black and more!

Paintbox Crafts Stranded Cotton 16 Skein Colour Pack - Beginner

Paintbox Crafts Stranded Cotton 48 Skein Colour Pack 1 - Pastels

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Download your FREE Paintbox Crafts embroidery & cross stitch patterns!

Paintbox Crafts Colour Your World With Embroidery Patterns

Paintbox Crafts Colour Your World With Cross Stitch Patterns

💯 Fantastic quality

Our product guru, Fran and her team, have scoured the globe and worked with industry experts to create the best quality threads. Made from 100% combed gassed mercerized Egyptian Cotton, it's oh-so-soft to touch and silky to stitch with, plus it takes to dye beautifully so the colors are vibrant and rich.

♻️ Earth-friendly packaging

The boxes are made from 100% recycled material and are recyclable, yay! Or, keep them for little on-the-go projects!

⭐️ Experts love them

The threads have been tried and tested by embroidery and cross stitch designers and influencers, to make sure they're 100% fantastic

FREE 6 Strand Embroidery Floss conversion charts!

Switching from DMC or Anchor? We've made you a handy Anchor & DMC to Paintbox conversion chart, so you can find the right shade for your next project!

Just switching from one brand?

Download the DMC to Paintbox Crafts Stranded Cotton.

Download the Anchor to Paintbox Crafts Stranded Cotton.

Treat yo’self to the ultimate 200 skein pack!

This is the ulitmate 200 skein pack of fantastic Paintbox Crafts Stranded Cotton. This box contains every shade of mood-boosting colour under the Painbox sun! There's a rainbow of choice for all of your projects, and it makes the ultimate stash essential for stichers. All made from 100% Egyptian Cotton, it's quality that gets the stamp of approval from the experts. Oh so soft to touch, it's a dream to use for all your embroidery and cross-stitch projects. Plus it comes in earth-friendly recycled packaging, get in! With more colour packs to choose from in 200 mood-boosting shades, it's time to colour your world!

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