| Size | 15 × 15 beads |
|---|---|
| Colours | 7 · Perler |
| Total beads | 159 |
| Difficulty | Beginner (1/5) |
| Finished size | 3 × 3 in (7.5 × 7.5 cm) |
| Pegboards | 1 square 29 × 29 board |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit |
Materials
About this design
This little cake sits in a paper case striped in Apricot and Light Brown, with a domed cap of Blush frosting on top. A few Pastel Blue sprinkles and a White highlight are dotted across the frosting, and a single Red cherry crowns the top. The black outline is one bead wide all the way round, which keeps the shape crisp and helps the piece hold together after ironing. It is a lovely party activity: make one per guest and use them as place cards or cake toppers.
You will need roughly 57 Blush, 51 Black, 22 Apricot, 18 Light Brown, 5 Pastel Blue, 4 Red and 2 White beads. Buy a few spares of each, because the odd bead always rolls away.
Placing the beads
At 15 × 15 beads the design fits easily on one large square pegboard. Do the case stripes row by row, alternating the two colours, before you fill the frosting.
Ironing and finishing
Ironing is a job for an adult. Cover the beads with ironing paper, set a dry iron to medium and move it in slow circles until the beads just begin to merge, then let it cool, turn it over and press the back. Cool it flat under a heavy book so it stays straight. At about 7.5 × 7.5 cm in midi beads it makes a party favour, a magnet or a birthday card decoration.
Colour plan
Perler 80-19063 Blush does the most work, 36% of the 159 beads, followed by Perler 80-19018 Black at 32%. Perler 80-19052 Pastel Blue (5), Perler 80-19005 Red (4) and Perler 80-19001 White (2) are used only a little: small details worth marking on the chart so you don't miss them. 29% of the grid is left empty.
Working notes
All the beads touch along a full side, so it irons into one solid piece.
Hama and Artkal S equivalents
The nearest Hama and Artkal S colour for each Perler colour in this pattern, measured as ΔE 2000: up to 3 is very close, up to 6 close, up to 10 approximate.
| Perler | Hama | Artkal S |
|---|---|---|
| 80-19005 | H114 ΔE 5.0 · close | S34 ΔE 4.7 · close |
| 80-19018 | H18 ΔE 9.6 · approximate | S13 ΔE 2.9 · very close |
| 80-19063 | H95 ΔE 6.8 · approximate | S94 ΔE 7.9 · approximate |
| 80-19001 | H01 ΔE 3.1 · close | S01 ΔE 3.3 · close |
| 80-19052 | H46 ΔE 5.4 · close | S53 ΔE 2.7 · very close |
| 80-15213 | H105 ΔE 3.1 · close | S18 ΔE 7.4 · approximate |
| 80-19021 | H76 ΔE 5.4 · close | S17 ΔE 6.1 · approximate |
This is an original CraftPatterns design, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: stitch it, share it and gift what you make — please credit craftpatterns.app and don't sell the pattern itself. Want to change it? Open it in the fuse beads editor.
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