| Size | 17 × 17 beads |
|---|---|
| Colours | 4 · Perler |
| Total beads | 161 |
| Difficulty | Easy (2/5) |
| Finished size | 3.3 × 3.3 in (8.5 × 8.5 cm) |
| Pegboards | 1 square 29 × 29 board |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit |
Materials
About this design
The sun’s face is a circle of Yellow outlined in Black, with two Black eyes, two Blush cheeks and a wide curved smile. Short Orange rays stick out around it in eight directions. The rays are thin, and the diagonal ones climb in steps so that every bead touches the next along an edge, but they still need care when you take the piece off the board: iron it well so each ray fuses firmly.
You will need roughly 88 Yellow, 47 Black, 24 Orange and 2 Blush beads. Buy a few spares of each, because the odd bead always rolls away.
Placing the beads
At 17 × 17 beads the design fits easily on one large square pegboard. Place the rays last, checking each one against the chart, and press them a little longer when 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, then let it cool, turn it over and press the back. Cool it flat under a heavy book so it stays straight. At about 8.5 × 8.5 cm in midi beads it makes a window hanger, a weather chart piece or a summer decoration.
Colour plan
Perler 80-19003 Yellow does the most work, 55% of the 161 beads, followed by Perler 80-19018 Black at 29%. Perler 80-19063 Blush (2) is used only a little: small details worth marking on the chart so you don't miss them. 44% 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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