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Cat Perler Bead Pattern
A seated black cat with pink inner ears and nose, bright yellow eyes, white eye highlights, long whiskers and a curled tail.
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Perler bead material list
Exact per-color counts for the 26×26 grid, so you can sort cups before you start. Switch the brand above to remap codes, colors and totals on this page.
- Black
P18259 beads - Bubblegum
P0618 beads - White
P012 beads - Yellow
P0312 beads
Making notes
The face depends on exact accent placement inside a large black silhouette. Build both ear triangles as a mirrored pair, count the white eye highlights before adding yellow, and use the two full-width whisker rows as horizontal checkpoints before starting the body.
This chart is built for makers who want a recognizable cat Perler bead pattern they can follow, recolor and export, with a complete face, body and tail rather than a decorative mockup.
Build the two black ear triangles first and mirror the pink centers. Close the head rectangle, place the white eye highlights and yellow eye blocks, then add the pink two-bead nose and both whisker rows. Finish the ten-bead neck band, step the body outward row by row and build the curled tail upward from its lower connection. The full-width whisker rows at 14 and 16, the separated white eye beads at row 11 and the one-column gap inside the tail are the easiest landmarks to shift. Count these from both coordinate edges before filling the large black regions. Audit the face as a bilateral sequence of ear wells, vertical yellow rails, pinprick catchlights and the centered muzzle pixel; the right tail must retain its hollow lane and three exterior notches.
Pattern layout and bead count
The reference bead layer contains 18 columns by 26 rows. Four empty columns are added on each side to create the editor's 26×26 square without scaling or moving any occupied cell; the motif spans columns 5–22 and rows 4–25 on one standard 29×29 Midi board. Checkpoints: Rows 4–9: mirror both ear outlines and keep all sixteen pink inner-ear beads in their reference positions. Rows 10–14: confirm the two white highlights and twelve yellow eye beads before filling black gaps. Rows 14–16: keep both eighteen-bead whisker lines straight and center the two-bead pink nose. Rows 17–25: preserve the open tail channel and reconnect the curl to the body at row 24.
Ways to customize this pattern
For a grey or midnight-blue cat, recolor only the black silhouette first and keep the pink, yellow and white accents fixed. A Halloween version can use orange inner ears and green eyes, but the two white highlights and open tail channel should remain easy to distinguish.
Black carries the silhouette, Bubblegum marks the inner ears and nose, Yellow forms the four eye bars and lower eye pairs, and White is reserved for two highlights. Keep those accent positions unchanged when switching brands; recolor the main black region only if the eye and ear contrast remains strong.
Print and iron checklist
The whisker tips and the upper tail are narrow extensions with less support than the head and body. Fuse in short even passes, avoid closing the white tail gap, and cool the piece flat before lifting so the outer whisker beads do not curl. Before export, verify the 26×26 coordinates, 291-bead total and all 4 active color roles against the on-page material list.
Project ideas for Sitting Black Cat
The 26×26 seated cat suits a window piece, desk plaque, pet portrait, or mirrored pair. Put hardware behind the solid head or haunch block rather than a whisker end or the narrow tail curl. Before mounting, verify both eye highlights, the centered two-bead nose, straight whisker rows, open tail channel, and row-24 tail connection.
The source grid uses F and the other design symbols only as internal color roles. The interactive chart replaces them with the selected manufacturer codes, while its material list combines any roles that map to the same bead color.
