Peach Soda Fuse Bead Patterns: Fizzy Drinks, Peach Basket and 8 Shop Animals

Peach Soda Station turns a peach soda stand into 20 pixel-art fuse bead patterns. Eight animals in caps, visors and aprons run the stand, and twelve smaller patterns stock it: a fresh peach, a wicker basket of peaches, bottles, a milkshake and a cart with a pink-striped awning on wooden wheels.

Who works the stand

• Peach Soda Bunny, cream with a peach cap, sipping a blue soda through a straw
• Bottle Shop Bear in a green visor and coral apron, holding a pink bottle
• Delivery Kitten, an orange tabby in a peach beret with a carton and a mint shoulder bag
• Soda Float Duck with a blue bow tie and an ice cream float
• Milkshake Puppy, floppy brown ears and a blue pinafore, holding a pink milkshake
• Tray Service Otter in a striped shirt, carrying two cups on a tray
• Ice Bucket Penguin hugging a bucket of ice cubes
• Peach Basket Lamb in a peach-trimmed bonnet with a basket on her arm

Four of them carry something that also has a pattern of its own. The bear’s bottle, the puppy’s milkshake, the penguin’s ice bucket and the lamb’s basket each appear again among the objects, so one character and its matching piece make an easy pair to display together.

Characters and counter pieces are different projects

The Peach Syrup Pump is the smallest at 422 beads. The Tray Service Otter is the biggest, 59 by 80 and 3,183 beads. The pack says to use enough compatible pegboards and one bead size throughout. These charts suit standard 5 mm fuse beads such as Perler, a brand Doodlora Studio has no affiliation with.

Shopping for colors

Each design has its own palette, numbered from 01, so code 16 on the peach is a different shade from code 16 on the cart. The codes are the pack’s own, not a bead maker’s color numbers. Match them to your beads by eye using the hex value printed next to each one.

Some colors are only a handful of beads. They come from small shading steps in the original artwork. On the Fresh Peach, four of its 18 colors are used for one bead each, and the Peach Soda Bottle has eight colors under five beads. When you don’t own a close match for one of those, the nearest shade you have will do. The color-count CSV lists every code with its hex and total, which is easier to shop from than the chart pages.

Three objects are meant to have holes. The openings of the Peach Basket, the Ice Bucket and the Soda Cart are charted as empty pegs, so leave them bare.

Reading a character chart

A character takes five pages: a preview with its color key, then four blocks in the order top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right. Row and column numbers carry on from one block to the next and the blocks don’t overlap, so every row is placed exactly once. The count table repeats on each block. It is the total for the whole pattern, not for that block. Objects fit on one page each.

Print either edition at 100% or Actual Size. White beads carry a code like any other color; an unnumbered white square is an empty peg. The pack’s own notes say the patterns haven’t been fused and ironed in testing, and they ask for an adult to handle the heat. Loose beads are a choking hazard around small children.

Questions

Can I lay the beads straight onto the printed chart?

No. The pack calls these symbolic charts, not placement templates, so a printed square is not the size of a bead. Read the codes off the page and place the beads on your pegboard.