Fruit Basket
Fruit Basket is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 93.3 × 60.0 mm with 9,062 stitches in 15 thread colors. Expect roughly 15 minutes of stitch-out time on a home machine. Download it below in PES format, ready to transfer to your machine.
Pattern Details
- Craft
- Machine Embroidery
- Colors
- 15
- Stitches
- 9,062
- Design Size
- 93.3 × 60 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~15 min
- Color Changes
- 14
- Trims
- 10
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
Download Files
Free for personal use. Need another format (DST, JEF, EXP…)? More formats are on the way.
Stitching Color Sequence
Thread order as programmed in the file — follow along at your machine.
| # | Thread | Stitches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 010 · 18 | 572 |
| 2 | 208 · 12 | 897 |
| 3 | 515 · 56 | 2,679 |
| 4 | 339 · 36 | 142 |
| 5 | 209 · 52 | 542 |
| 6 | 214 · 11 | 643 |
| 7 | 030 · 28 | 49 |
| 8 | 323 · 26 | 318 |
| 9 | 027 · 61 | 672 |
| 10 | 502 · 10 | 904 |
About This Design
This basket of fruit design stitches out at 93.3 × 60.0 mm (3.7 × 2.4 in) and uses 15 thread colors across 14 color changes. Total count is 9,062 stitches at a density of about 161.9 stitches/cm².
Hooping & Stabilizer
The design fits a 4" x 4" (100 x 100 mm) hoop. Use a medium-weight cutaway stabilizer for knits and stretchy fabrics, or tear-away for stable wovens. Hoop the fabric drum-tight without stretching it.
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~15 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 14, automatic trims: 10
- Follow the color sequence table above — thread numbers refer to the chart programmed in the file; match them to your brand by color.
Project Ideas
Designs like this basket of fruit work beautifully on kids' clothing, towels, tote bags, quilt blocks and nursery decor. Stitch a test on scrap fabric first to dial in tension and stabilizer.