Cartoon Fruit Faces

About This Design

This fruit face design stitches out at 33.2 × 102.1 mm (1.3 × 4.0 in) and uses 10 thread colors across 9 color changes. Total count is 1,624 stitches at a density of about 47.9 stitches/cm².

At The Machine

• Estimated stitch-out time: ~3 minutes at 600 spm
• Color changes: 9, automatic trims: 4
• Follow the color sequence table above — thread numbers refer to the chart programmed in the file; match them to your brand by color.

Fabric & Hooping

At about 47.9 stitches/cm² this is an open, low-density fill, so it sits happily on quilting cotton, linen or lightweight shirting with a single layer of tear-away behind it. At 33.2 × 102.1 mm reach for a 5×7 in hoop.

Thread Colors in This Design

DST files store stitch data but no thread information, so the colors below are our suggested DMC match. Swap in whatever you have in a similar shade:

• 3607 Light Plum
• 931 Medium Antique Blue
• 807 Peacock Blue
• 909 Very Dark Emerald
• 444 Dark Lemon
• 900 Dark Burnt Orange
• 3705 Dark Melon
• 317 Pewter Gray
• 434 Light Brown
• 550 Very Dark Violet

Stitching Notes

10 colors across 9 changes makes this a real thread-management job: lay the spools out in sequence order first and keep the color chart to hand. DST stores stitch data only, which is why the color list is a suggestion rather than the digitizer's original choice.

What to Make With It

Motifs like this scatter well — single placements on pockets and yokes, or repeated across a quilt block, a set of napkins or a child's blanket. It reads the same at any orientation, so placement is forgiving.