I use sewwhat programs, and for each design it tells you how much each colour uses, how many stitches and allows design resizing and change of colours.
Helen
You can also google "Embroidery Thread Usage" and several charts come up. I have to refer to it every once in a while.
will this help?
I think this might have been the one I saw. Thank you. I have bought several designs from EL but never seen this page. *
Look forward to someone/anyone replying to this, then I will bookmark it