Christmas Fuse Bead Patterns: 30 Designs with Santa, Snowmen, Ornaments and Snowflakes for Standard and Mini Beads

All 30 Christmas fuse bead patterns in this set share one board size: a 34 x 34 square of pegs. That makes the whole collection easy to plan. One board of that size, or several smaller boards joined to reach it, works for every piece, from the 280-bead Classic Candy Cane to the 788-bead Square Gift.

What’s in the 30

The designs come in small families, so you can make a matching group:

• Trees: a tree hung with red baubles, a snow-layered tree and a tree wrapped in a gold ribbon, standing in a red pot
• Santa: a face portrait, Santa holding a green gift and Santa with a sack over his shoulder
• Snowmen: one in a green knit hat, one in a top hat with red mittens raised, one in a red pompom hat and a yellow scarf
• Reindeer and gingerbread: a reindeer face with a red scarf, a sitting reindeer in a sweater, and two gingerbread people, one with a bow tie and one with a green scarf
• Hang-ups: two candy canes (one with a green bow), a holly stocking, a striped stocking, a holiday star, a single bell with a red bow and a pair of gold bells
• Gifts: a square red box with a gold bow and a tall green box with a red one
• Snowflakes: three different six-point flakes in light blue and teal
• Baubles: round red, round green and a gold teardrop
• Houses: a red cabin with a wreath under the roof peak and a gingerbread cottage with icing on the roof

The snowflakes are the odd ones out. They skip the dark brown outline the other 27 designs use and need only three or four colors each, mostly light blue and deep teal.

How each design is charted

Every design takes four pages in the PDF. The first two are the 5 mm charts at actual size: one with colored squares and a letter in each, and one with the letters printed in black on white, which stays readable from a printer without color ink. The third page is the mini version for 2.6 mm beads, with the color chart and the black-and-white chart on the same sheet. The fourth is an enlarged color picture of the design, meant for reading only.

Above each chart is the bead total and the number of colors. Below it, each color is listed with its code (C1, C2 …), its letter, a name such as Pine or Cinnamon, and how many beads it takes. Gray squares are empty pegs. White and cream squares still carry a letter, so a square that looks blank on the color chart may still need a bead.

Sizes and printing

The full grid comes out at 6.69 in (17 cm) square with 5 mm beads and 3.48 in (8.84 cm) with 2.6 mm beads. Most designs leave a margin of empty pegs, so the finished piece is smaller than the grid, and ironing can shift it a little further. Turn off any fit-to-page setting and print at 100%, then measure the 1.969 in (50 mm) line printed on each chart page before you lay a single bead. The Letter and A4 books carry the same 124 pages, so choose by the paper in your printer.

Gathering the colors

Page 4 adds up all 30 designs by hex color: 17,220 beads across 12 shades. A dark brown called Cocoa is by far the most used at 4,944, because it outlines almost everything, followed by Cream at 3,328 and Red at 2,463. Many designs call for just one or two beads of a color (the Mitten Snowman needs a single Pine bead and a single Peach bead), so read the list before deciding you are short of anything. The codes are the set’s own and don’t match any bead maker’s numbering. Hold the swatches against the beads you have and pick the nearest shade.

The charts work with 5 mm fuse beads such as Perler and with 2.6 mm mini beads; Doodlora Studio has no affiliation with Perler. The 30 PNG files are the full-color drawings the charts were simplified from. They show shading and curves a 34-square grid can’t hold, so build from the PDF pages and keep the PNGs as a picture of the finished idea.

Beads, pegboards, tweezers and irons are not part of the download. An adult should do all the ironing, and loose beads are a choking hazard for young children and pets.