Sweet Cherry Pair Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Two fat cherries, stems joined together at the top, one slightly overlapping the other. Thats the whole thing and it works really well. The bodies are done in dense satin fill: bright cherry red at the top shading into a deeper dark red toward the base, with tiny white highlight stitches that give each one that glossy, almost 3D look. The single broad leaf above sits at a slight angle and picks up alot of those same green thread tones from the stem.

I punched the colour run in my professional tool across all five sizes, so the satin angles stay consistent whether youre running the 3.24-inch version or the full 6.92-inch. Five colours in total: Red, Dark Red, a warm pinkish red, Green, and a brighter lime green for the leaf edge. Stitch count runs from 4,030 at the smallest up to 14,306 at the largest. Use a light cutaway stabiliser on stretchy knits, and standard tearaway works fine on quilting cotton or linen.

And the range you get out of five sizes is actually pretty practical. The small sits nicely centred on a pocket. Mid sizes work well on tote bags or aprons. The 6-inch fills a kitchen towel without looking cramped. One customer wrote me asking about hooping the 4-inch on a linen apron last spring and said it came out clean first try, no stabiliser issues.

Pair it with other fruit designs for a whole produce-market set, or stitch it solo on a summer tee. Best on white or cream fabric so those reds pop properly. Skip dark backgrounds unless youre planning to use a topping to keep the satin crisp and the highlights visible. Thats the only situation where it gets tricky.

Use a 40-weight thread for the main fills and drop to 60-weight on the highlight dots if you want them sharp. The bobbin tension matters more than people think with satin this dense, so run a test swatch before the actual piece. Dont skip the test if its your first dense fill on this machine.