Design Custom Fuse-Bead Patterns

How It Works

Start from a blank grid, a photo, or a shared pattern. The same Designer lets you edit, count beads, save locally, and print.

Fuse-Bead Designer

The Designer is a drawing board for fuse beads. Place beads by hand, erase or fill areas, pick colors from the 56-color palette, and try color filters before you commit. Grids range from a small 14 × 14 square up to 3 × 3 pegboards (87 × 87). As you work, bead counts update so you know how many beads of each color the design uses. When the pattern is ready, save a file, save it to Projects, or print an exact-size PDF.

Import Image

Import Image converts a photo into a fuse-bead pattern in your browser. Choose a PNG, JPG, or WebP file on your device. Nothing is uploaded. The converter maps the picture onto the site’s bead palette using a fixed matching method. Pick a grid size, use Balanced or Simplified conversion, crop or zoom the photo, then load the result into the Designer and clean up individual beads.

Community Patterns

Community Patterns is a public gallery of fuse-bead designs you can browse and open. Each pattern is a starting point: open it in the Designer to change colors, resize your view, edit beads, and print your own copy. Sharing a design is optional and reviewed before it appears in the gallery.

Projects

Projects stores designs on this device so you can return to them later. Select one or more saved designs to combine their bead counts into a single shopping list. Copy that list, use store links when they are available, or export a shopping-list PDF with clickable links and Amazon QR codes. Projects stay in this browser. They are not uploaded and they are not the same as public Community Patterns.

Print at pegboard scale

Print PDF builds a template at the site’s 5.0 mm peg spacing so the printed pattern matches a standard fuse-bead pegboard when you print at actual size (100%, fit-to-page off). Larger designs are split across pages as exact-size tiles instead of shrinking the pattern. Each page includes bead counts so you can gather colors before you start placing beads.

Learn the basics

Short guides for the Designer workflow: convert a photo, pick a grid size, plan bead quantities, and print at pegboard scale.

• Plan your bead quantities
• Turn a photo into a pattern
• Choose a grid size
• Print at the correct scale

Fresh from my bead table

Rainbow unicorns, retro space adventures, and pixel-inspired treasures. Explore my digital pattern collections and find your next project.

Digital patterns · 5mm beads · 21 × 21

12 Unicorn Patterns · Medium

Twelve rainbow unicorn designs with extra room for detail: sunglasses, a flower crown, bubblegum, a scarf, headphones, starry and heart-filled scenes, a skateboard, and unicorn-inspired sweet treats.

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Digital patterns · 5mm beads · 14 × 14

Retro Space

A miniature space adventure with a rocket, ringed planet, flying saucer, astronaut helmet, shooting star, robot, sun, rover, satellite, ray gun, spiral galaxy, and friendly alien.

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Digital patterns · 5mm beads · 14 × 14

Video Game Loot

Pixel-inspired adventure essentials: a heart, coin, gem, sword, shield, potion, treasure chest, key, trophy, bomb, controller, and flag. Bright colors give each collectible its own personality.

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Made with the Mandolin Handmade Designer

These examples were built from Designer patterns. Every design can be edited bead by bead, recolored, saved to Projects, and printed as an exact-size template.

Burger

Eye

Cow

Witch Hat

Carrot

Jack-o'-lantern

Tree

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