Here are a few more Perler bead pieces I've done recently...
Misfits Logo
I made this as a coaster using mini beads.
More to come, trust me. I can't stop making these!
Here are a few more Perler bead pieces I've done recently...
Misfits Logo
I made this as a coaster using mini beads.
More to come, trust me. I can't stop making these!
I love The Office so much. One of my favorite episodes is when the employees say that prison sounds better than work, so Michael decides to teach them a lesson. They do a play on "Scared Straight", where an inmate comes and gives a speech about how horrible being locked up is. It backfired...
Pattern by KnotsAndCrossesCraft
My sister is a massive Simpsons fan, and she has passed that love on to my nephew. I really wanted to make him something cool, so I made this Homer Simpson bursting through the wall. It didn't really take super long to make him it's a large piece and so ironing it was a little hard. I'm not great at ironing big projects, and some of the beads didn't quite melt and I had to re-add them and ugh.
But I love how he came out. I hope my nephew will like it...
Okay, so the Perler Bead community is full of fellow nerds, thankfully, and so they post their patterns and finished pieces they did from their fandoms.
I love these Lord of the Rings guys. I don't know what I'll do with them because I can't really paint shapes and backgrounds, just solid colors, but I'll figure out something. Maybe I'll make magnets... can you tell the Hobbits apart? Allen says the ring looks like a donut and... well, I can't disagree. LOL
I will forever love Invader Zim. It's so silly, but so cute. I love that it's getting a revival of late!
I love how this turned out, how the pink is kind of streaky. It kind of adds to the chaos. I like doing these bigger pieces for canvases.
Goats are my favorite animal. I have this cross stitch pattern by LolaCrow of goats wearing sweaters, and I thought the pattern was translate pretty well to perler beads, so I made these cute little goats using mini beads!
Cross stitch patterns 99% of the time translate into great perler bead patterns, and vice versa!
I think I'll make a fridge magnet from the Baggins' door. I would love to get a gold grad to put in the middle of this to make it into a gold handle but I'm not buying a pack of 100 for just one...
Well since I am hyper-focused on Perler Bead projects, that's all you're gonna see for a while.
I am a Pezhead and have been collecting since I was 15. I have about 1500 or more, and I have them displayed in the house. There was a big gap between this little shelves that I wanted to fill, and so Allen helped me make a Pez sign! How cool is this? I made it from the mini beads.
I think they look so cool!
Happy late new year! Usually I stitch my ass off at the end of the year between gifts and just doing ornaments for the hell of it, and so I need a break. Sometimes I don't do anything, and sometimes I find another hobby to obsess over.
There are a few companies who make these beads. I call them "melty beads" or "Perler Beads", because Perler is the main brand who makes them in the US. They make larger and smaller beads. The smaller beads are good for more detailed projects and the bigger ones are ideal for either really large pieces or projects that don't need as much detail.
It's almost like cross stitching but rather than placing Xs of thread on fabric, you place beads onto pegboard and then melt them using an iron. I really love doing these.
I did this one on New Year's Eve. It's from a Tusk and Cardinal cross stitch pattern, but I used little beads. It's a Ghost Tea Party!
Happy new year! 2023! I'm excited to see what this year brings!
Instead of looking forward, we're looking back, again, on this post, and it's Mini Time- 2020 edition.
Here are some super cute little stitches I did back in 2020.
I think I've probably posted this one- I made a little button out of it.