| Size | 18 × 15 beads |
|---|---|
| Colours | 3 · Perler |
| Total beads | 204 |
| Difficulty | Beginner (1/5) |
| Finished size | 3.5 × 3 in (9 × 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
Blush makes the face and Pink makes the ears and the wide snout, with two black nostrils in the middle. The eyes are two-by-two black squares set well apart, which keeps the expression gentle. With only three colours and a square shape it is quick to bead and an easy design to repeat for a set of farm animals with the cow and the sheep.
Bead counts: 103 Blush, 66 Black and 35 Pink, 204 beads in all. Buy a few spares of each colour, because the odd bead always rolls away.
Placing the beads
One large square pegboard (29 × 29 pegs) holds the whole 18 × 15 design. Fill the snout first, then build the Blush face out around it so the snout stays centred. Check each row against the chart before you move on, as one stray bead is hard to fix after ironing.
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. Let it cool, turn it over and press the back, then cool it flat under a heavy book. At about 9 × 7.5 cm it makes a magnet or a farm-themed party favour.
Colour plan
Perler 80-19063 Blush does the most work, 50% of the 204 beads, followed by Perler 80-19018 Black at 32%. Every colour is used at least 35 times, so there are no tiny one-off details to hunt for. 24% 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.
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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