"Pear Wreath With Needle" Heavyweight Unisex Crewneck T-shirt

Rust orange and dark navy do most of the work here, and they trade roles as the wreath goes round. Navy draws the two branches that curve up into an oval and stop short of each other at the top, and it outlines the five-petalled blossoms, whose petals are left open. Orange belongs to the six pears, three hanging on each side, each one stippled with pale cream so the skin reads as grainy and slightly glossy. Olive leaves with thin pale veins crowd both edges of the branches and overlap the fruit.

The base is where the drawing turns into a small story. The branch ends are snapped apart, each stump bound with coils of thread in the same orange as the pears, and a navy needle lies diagonally across the break with its thread dropping into a loose loop and a curled tail. On this heavyweight crewneck T-shirt the middle of the wreath is left open, so the mend at the bottom carries the design. The smallest pear, high on the left, has a notch missing from its side. It suits anyone who sews, mends or grows fruit, and it makes an easy gift for a quilter or a gardener.

• The largest pear hangs low on the left, pulling the oval slightly off balance.
• The thread passes through the needle’s eye before it loops away below the branch.
• Blossoms cluster near the top of the left branch and appear singly down the right.