| Size | 21 × 16 beads |
|---|---|
| Colours | 7 · Perler |
| Total beads | 184 |
| Difficulty | Easy (2/5) |
| Finished size | 4.1 × 3.1 in (10.5 × 8 cm) |
| Pegboards | 1 square 29 × 29 board |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit |
Materials
About this design
The unicorn faces left, with a White head, a single black eye and a Flamingo nostril. The horn is a short diagonal of Rich Butter with Lemon highlights, and the mane falls down the back of the neck in alternating Pink and Lavender. It uses seven colours but most of them only a few beads each, so the sorting is quicker than it looks.
Bead counts: 91 White, 57 Black, 17 Pink, 10 Lavender, 5 Rich Butter, 3 Lemon and 1 Flamingo, 184 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 21 × 16 design. The horn steps up diagonally; each bead touches the next along an edge, so place them in order from the head upwards. Check each row against the chart before you move on, as one stray bead is hard to fix after ironing.
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 × 8 cm, a good size for a bag charm or a birthday-party favour.
Colour plan
Perler 80-19001 White does the most work, 49% of the 184 beads, followed by Perler 80-19018 Black at 31%. Perler 80-15274 Rich Butter (5), Perler 80-15269 Lemon (3) and Perler 80-15203 Flamingo (1) are used only a little: small details worth marking on the chart so you don't miss them. 45% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 80-15274 | H03 ΔE 8.7 · approximate | S48 ΔE 4.9 · close |
| 80-15269 | H03 ΔE 4.4 · close | S14 ΔE 5.3 · close |
| 80-19018 | H18 ΔE 9.6 · approximate | S13 ΔE 2.9 · very close |
| 80-19083 | H32 ΔE 7.6 · approximate | S25 ΔE 1.4 · very close |
| 80-19001 | H01 ΔE 3.1 · close | S01 ΔE 3.3 · close |
| 80-15182 | H96 ΔE 9.2 · approximate | S131 ΔE 3.1 · close |
| 80-15203 | H95 ΔE 5.4 · close | S19 ΔE 7.1 · 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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