| Size | 19 × 9 beads |
|---|---|
| Colours | 5 · Perler |
| Total beads | 124 |
| Difficulty | Beginner (1/5) |
| Finished size | 3.7 × 1.8 in (9.5 × 4.5 cm) |
| Pegboards | 1 square 29 × 29 board |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit |
Materials
About this design
The shell is a dome of Green checked with Dark Green, which gives it the look of a patterned turtle shell. A Sour Apple head with a White eye pokes out on the right, and four Sour Apple legs stand beneath the shell, separated by small gaps. The design is low and wide, only nine beads tall, so it is one of the fastest projects in the library and a good choice for very young children.
You will need roughly 61 Black, 32 Green, 17 Dark Green, 13 Sour Apple and 1 White beads. Buy a few spares of each, because the odd bead always rolls away.
Placing the beads
At 19 × 9 beads the design fits easily on one large square pegboard. Leave the gaps between the legs empty so they stay separate 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, then let it cool, turn it over and press the back. Cool it flat under a heavy book so it stays straight. At about 9.5 × 4.5 cm in midi beads it makes a magnet, a zipper pull or a pencil-case decoration.
Colour plan
Perler 80-19018 Black does the most work, 49% of the 124 beads, followed by Perler 80-19080 Bright Green at 26%. Perler 80-19001 White (1) is used only a little: small details worth marking on the chart so you don't miss them. 27% 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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