The fruit picker and flower border embroidery piece is stitch-complete.

Pictures before and after washing out the soluble, self-adhesive pattern transfer paper. These designs were mostly hand-traced or adapted at the given scale from "501 Enchanting Embroidery Designs".

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Three of nine characters stitch-complete. Two pear characters and the acorn hat character are done. A pair each of cherry, strawberry, and apple pickers remain.

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Starting on the characters' faces with the mouth and cheeks of the pear hat girl. Mouth: single strand hot pink. Cheek spots: double strand pale pink.

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All four baskets finished, for the two strawberry pickers, one for the two cherry pickers, and one for Acorn Hat Boy.

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Baskets for the fruit pickers. Work in progress.

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All hats, dresses, shirts, short pants and shoes done, we're now down to baskets, arms. legs, and faces.

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Switching to the central design element, two characters wearing cherry shaped hats connected by the cherry stems of the hats converging.

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Moving on to sewing the apple picker character with hat, shirt and shorts.

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Commute bus needlework. Strawberry shorts character gets hat and shorts stitched in.

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