Royally pissed

Today I did the trip to Germany during the first winter storm. It was no fun having to drive with an iron grip on the steering wheel or I´d end up in the roadside ditch. At home I unpacked the goods, embroidery threads among it. At the shop I already noticed that something was amiss but could not pinpoint what it was. Then I started embroidering and searched for the white thread, and immediately knew what had confused me.Those threads come in fours, and the new batch has different combinations of colours. Now I have red threads aplenty but no white ones. I am definitely not ready to do another trip over the border. Right now I am fuming at myself, because, you know, I should have checked the content of the packages!

See what I mean?

This is my Santa. Or, better, my overly tall Christmas elf. DiL number one has banned Santa. She has not yet banned the Christmas elves. Phew! My elf has a beard, he has a fur collar. But I cannot do the trim of the coat. Maybe I will cut out the white parts at the seam and do red only. I am fed up with embroidery and the handicraft shop. It´s not them who do the packages, but they better have warned me that the producer has exchanged the colours!
PS:I found white mercerized yarn in my sewing box, but it is not as thick as the white one I have used until now. I will have to wait until tomorrow, to see if this will work!