Post Office Fuse Bead Patterns with Moonlit Mail Carriers, Stamps and Letters

Moon Post Office runs its mail through the night. Its 20 fuse bead patterns are eight carriers and twelve things they deliver: a bunny clerk with a heart letter, a bear courier with a ribboned parcel, a kitten postmaster with a teal mailbag, a duck in flying cap and goggles for the air mail, and four more. One bunny naps on a crescent moon in a lilac nightcap, a fluffy cloud carries a satchel and a red envelope, a star in a lilac scarf runs messages, and a bunny in round glasses keeps the postcards.

Twelve postal pieces, very few colors

The objects are a heart-sealed envelope, a parcel with a bow, a teal mailbox with a crescent moon, a postal satchel, a honey-colored cap, a moon wax seal, a framed star stamp, a lantern, a quill and ink pot, a tied bundle of letters, a moon journal and a star-shaped key. Each one needs between 367 beads (the key) and 852 (the stamp), and each uses only four to eight colors.

They also share their colors. All twelve object charts draw on one list of 16 named shades, among them Burgundy, Vanilla, Honey, Coral, Deep teal and Lilac, and the codes mean the same thing on every object chart: 01 is the burgundy outline wherever it appears. Fifteen of the sixteen are actually used across the twelve, so one set of beads covers all of them. On 5 mm beads the objects come out roughly 4 to 5.5 inches wide.

The characters are a different job

Each character has its own 32-color key, and those don’t carry over. A code on the kitten chart isn’t the same color as that code on the bear. Bead counts run from 1,961 for the cloud to 3,588 for the letter clerk bunny, the only one whose ears push the drawing close to the full 96 rows. Every character is 52 beads across, about 10.2 inches on 5 mm beads. The hex values describe the artwork rather than any bead stock, and the codes aren’t a manufacturer’s color numbers, so match each swatch to your own beads. Standard 5 mm fuse beads such as Perler suit these charts; no affiliation exists between Perler and Doodlora Studio.

A character takes three pages. The first shows the whole design with its key. The next two are the top half (rows 1 to 48) and the bottom half (rows 49 to 96), joined at the marked edge with the row numbers carrying on. The count table appears on both halves and covers the whole design, so read it once.

The pack says the charts were checked digitally so that each design is one connected piece, but physical fusing hasn’t been tested. Print at 100%, follow your bead maker’s ironing directions, have an adult handle the heat, and keep the small beads away from young children.

Questions

Why does every character chart show the same 56 x 96 canvas?

The characters are all drawn on one canvas size, and the pack lists 56 x 96 pegs as what a character needs. The drawings themselves are 52 beads wide and between 54 and 91 rows tall, so the shorter ones leave empty rows at the top and bottom.