| Size | 24 × 12 beads |
|---|---|
| Colours | 3 · Perler |
| Total beads | 169 |
| Difficulty | Beginner (1/5) |
| Finished size | 4.7 × 2.4 in (12 × 6 cm) |
| Pegboards | 1 square 29 × 29 board |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit |
Materials
About this design
Light Blue makes the body and Robin’s Egg the belly, so the whale has a soft two-tone look without any shading to place. The whale faces left with a single black eye, and the tail rises and curls up on the right. It is a wide, low design, which makes it handy as a bookmark topper or a fridge magnet with room for a strong magnet strip.
Bead counts: 90 Light Blue, 51 Black and 28 Robin’s Egg, 169 beads in all. Buy a few spares of each colour, because the odd bead always rolls away.
Placing the beads
At 24 × 12 beads the design fits on one large 29 × 29 square pegboard with room to spare. Fill the belly row by row from the bottom; it is a long, even stripe and easy to count.
Ironing and finishing
With an adult at the iron, fuse the front under ironing paper on a medium setting until the holes start to close, then flip it and do the back. Cool it under something heavy to stop it curling. The finished piece is roughly 12 × 6 cm and works well as a magnet or a summer decoration.
Colour plan
Perler 80-19009 Light Blue does the most work, 53% of the 169 beads, followed by Perler 80-19018 Black at 30%. Every colour is used at least 28 times, so there are no tiny one-off details to hunt for. 41% 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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