29×29 perler bead patterns

The square board that comes in almost every starter box: 841 pegs, about 14.5 cm finished, and the size most patterns are drawn for.

Grid: 29×29
Pegs: 841
Mini · 2.6 mm: 7.5 × 7.5 cm
Midi · 5 mm: 14.5 × 14.5 cm
Maxi · 10 mm: 29.0 × 29.0 cm

If you own one pegboard, it is this one. Eight hundred and forty-one pegs is enough for a recognisable subject with shading and an outline, and small enough to finish in a sitting — an evening at a comfortable pace, less once you have the habit of working colour by colour.

At 14.5 cm square in midi beads it lands on the useful size for the things people actually make: coasters, wall pieces, box panels, decorations that are big enough to see across a room. It is also the size where a full tub of mixed beads makes several pieces rather than most of one.

Almost every pattern in this gallery is drawn at exactly 29×29, so what you see is what fills the board — no scaling, no leftover border to work out how to fill. Print at 100% and the sheet lines up with the pegs one for one.