Trashy diamonds are frustrating. It most often happens with black (DMC #310) The trash is usually tiny flecks of plastic mixed in with your diamonds. The easiest way to get rid of (most) of these is to put them in a strainer and shake them over a trash can or piece of paper. Then just pour the diamonds into your storage container and throw away the trash. Or…you can be a weirdo like me and save all your diamond trash.
I also keep all my “orphans.” These are the loners that I find or diamonds that I drop and find later. I save these just in case I need a similar color later and I run out. These are not my left over diamonds. I bag those up by DMC # and store those in my Diamond Library.
Stitch For Power 