| Size | 21 × 11 beads |
|---|---|
| Colours | 6 · Perler |
| Total beads | 197 |
| Difficulty | Beginner (1/5) |
| Finished size | 4.1 × 2.2 in (10.5 × 5.5 cm) |
| Pegboards | 1 square 29 × 29 board |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit |
Materials
About this design
The controller is a wide Dark Grey shape with two handles at the bottom. On the left is a black cross for the d-pad, in the middle two small black buttons, and on the right four single beads in Red, Light Blue, Yellow and Green. It is not a copy of any one console’s pad, just the general shape gamers will recognise.
Bead counts: 131 Dark Grey, 62 Black, 1 Red, 1 Light Blue, 1 Yellow and 1 Green, 197 beads in all. Buy a few spares of each colour, because the odd bead always rolls away.
Placing the beads
You need one large square pegboard for this 21 × 11 design. The four coloured buttons are single beads; put them in before the grey round them so they do not get lost.
Ironing and finishing
An adult should do the ironing. Use ironing paper, a medium dry iron and slow circular movements, lifting the paper to check after about ten seconds. Iron the back once the front has cooled, and leave it under a book so it stays flat. Finished, it is about 10.5 × 5.5 cm, a good size for a magnet, a keyring or a gamer’s birthday card.
Colour plan
Perler 80-19092 Dark Grey does the most work, 66% of the 197 beads, followed by Perler 80-19018 Black at 31%. Perler 80-19005 Red (1), Perler 80-19009 Light Blue (1), Perler 80-19003 Yellow (1) and Perler 80-19080 Bright Green (1) are used only a little: small details worth marking on the chart so you don't miss them. 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 80-19018 | H18 ΔE 9.6 · approximate | S13 ΔE 2.9 · very close |
| 80-19092 | H71 ΔE 5.9 · close | S89 ΔE 1.0 · very close |
| 80-19005 | H114 ΔE 5.0 · close | S34 ΔE 4.7 · close |
| 80-19009 | H31 ΔE 8.9 · approximate | S54 ΔE 3.3 · close |
| 80-19003 | H03 ΔE 3.5 · close | S14 ΔE 1.5 · very close |
| 80-19080 | H115 ΔE 8.4 · approximate | S122 ΔE 4.8 · close |
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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