Perler Pins

 It's that time of year again when I get the urge to make perler bead stuff.  I cannot explain why I am like this, but I usually only do perler bead stuff in the winter.  

I prefer to do projects with the smaller beads because I often want to make hair clips or pins or magnets out of them and they just make cuter little things!  I get my beads from Perler and Artkal.  There was a really great place to get the mini beads, but they unfortunately went out of business.  They were a US distributor of the Artkal beads, which originate overseas and with tarrifs and stuff, I'm sure they've gone up quite a bit on their prices.  Luckily I grabbed just about every color under the sun a few years ago and have plenty left!  

I decided since I am in a place now where the weather allows me to wear blazers and vests more than a couple of times a year, I will make some cute lapel pins.  I love to wear flair on my vests and blazers, and I thought maybe some Perler bead pins would be cool.  I may make some hairclips too, but I'm not sure.  I get all of my patterns from Pinterest, or sometimes I will use a cross stitch pattern I already have. 

I made these last night...

And I made these both last night and today at lunch, but I ironed them at lunch.

Here are a couple on which I put pin backs.  I can't find my longer pin backs since we moved (I may have accidentally donated them when I was going through my craft stuff), but I'll get some soon for the longer and bigger ones.