The eternal frustration of colour batches.

I began beading a new colour variation of my Quadrat Box thinking I had plenty of beads to finish it in the colour I wanted to use. But, as time has gone on, it's started to become apparent that I would run out and have to buy a new tube.
It just didn't occur to me that buying a new tube would mean I ended up with a different batch and different shade than what I was using. Thankfully colours are usually pretty consistent in beads and this doesn't happen often but when it does it's very annoying.

This isn't a great photo but at the top is Delica #2102 (glazed banana) - one of my favourite colours. It's a slightly shiny, warm yellow and I've used it for 80% of my latest beaded box.

At the bottom is also Delica #2102 but this time its a lot more matte and more orange than yellow- and I'm not a fan of it.

So what next?

• Do I undo a lot of my work and just use the new tube at the bottom where hopefully it won't show?
• Do I carry on from where I am but swap out to a completely different colour?
• Or do I put it to one side and begin a quest hoping that someone has an old tube lying around that will match up?

In the end I bit the bullet and undid a few hours work so that I could keep the new batch to the bottom of the box I was beading and used a completely different colour for the lid. Not what I had in mind when I started, but thankfully it looked great in the end.