Stationery Fuse Bead Patterns: Woodland Shopkeepers, Pencils and Washi Tape

Every character in Woodland Stationery Shop is a forest animal with a desk job, and the other twelve of these 20 fuse bead patterns are the things they sell: notebooks, pencils, an eraser, washi tape, ink and the little green-roofed shop itself. Sage green, lavender, cream and acorn brown run through the whole set.

Jobs in the shop

The Notebook Clerk Bunny, in a green beret and lavender pinafore, holds an acorn notebook. The Pencil Maker Bear carries a pencil nearly as tall as the bear, the Sketchbook Fox has a sketchbook open to a leaf drawing, and the Letter Helper Squirrel holds an envelope. The Ink Keeper Owl wears a green capelet and clutches an ink bottle, the Brush Artist Hedgehog holds a paintbrush, the Eraser Helper Dormouse has a pink eraser, and the Tape Keeper Raccoon in a lavender apron holds a roll of tape.

The animals need 2,129 to 2,691 beads each. The bunny is the tallest at 84 rows, most of the extra height in its ears. The squirrel and the raccoon are the widest at 57 columns, and the raccoon is only 64 rows high. On 5 mm beads that’s about 16.5 inches tall for the bunny and 11.2 by 12.6 inches for the raccoon.

The objects have some odd shapes

Grid size alone is misleading for a few of the twelve. The Woodland Pencil sits on a 33 x 33 grid but lies on the diagonal, so it takes just 344 beads, the fewest in the set. The Leaf Bookmark is a long strip, 18 beads wide and 51 tall, made from 11 colors. The Tiny Scissors have open finger loops and the Leaf Washi Tape has an open center; both are charted as empty pegs, so leave them bare. The shop building and the Acorn Notebook are the heavy ones at 1,051 and 1,034 beads.

Buying beads for several patterns

Every design numbers its own colors from 01, so code 16 is the fox’s orange fur (#F2863E) but a sage green (#989C75) on the owl. If you’re making more than one, put the color-count CSVs together in a spreadsheet and total them by hex value instead of by code. Import the files as text so codes like 01 keep their leading zero. None of the codes belong to a bead brand; match the hex swatches to your own beads by eye. The charts work with standard 5 mm fuse beads such as Perler, and Doodlora Studio is not affiliated with that company.

An animal’s chart is split into four blocks with continuous row and column numbers, and the bead table printed on each block is for the whole animal, so count it once. Objects each fit on a single page. Print at 100%; the squares on paper are for reading, not for laying beads on. The pack notes that physical fusing hasn’t been tested, so heat should be handled by an adult, and loose beads are a choking hazard.