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animals · reference rebuild
Whale Perler Bead Pattern
Blue Whale replaces the oversized source while keeping a readable blue cetacean with a white belly, one dark eye, raised tail and compact paired fins.
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Perler bead material list
Exact per-color counts for the 19×19 grid, so you can sort cups before you start. Switch the brand above to remap codes, colors and totals on this page.
- Light Blue
P09105 beads - Midnight
P2011 beads - White
P0133 beads
Making notes
Keep the eye, stepped white underside, and both lower fins distinct. Preserve three blank rows above and four below the twelve-row whale instead of recentering it.
Blue Whale replaces the oversized source while keeping a readable blue cetacean with a white belly, one dark eye, raised tail and compact paired fins. The editable 19×19 result contains 139 occupied cells across 3 source roles.
Form the upper back and tail sweep before widening the blue torso. Insert the stepped white underside, place the eye, and finish both lower fins after the belly line is stable. Use row 6, the fullest row at 16 occupied positions, as a horizontal recount anchor. The active whale is nineteen columns wide but only twelve rows high, leaving three blank rows above and four below. Do not vertically recenter the approved normalization. Occupied bounds run from row 4 to row 15 and column 1 to column 19.
Pattern layout and bead count
The occupied motif measures 19×12 and is normalized to 19×19 with 3 top, 4 bottom. No occupied cell is cropped, scaled, mirrored or moved. The 139-bead chart fits one standard 29×29 square pegboard. This framing protects the balaenid flukes geometry. Checkpoints: First occupied row 4: B C12–C16. Confirm the balaenid flukes entry point. Fullest row 6 contains 16 occupied cells; compare its complete left-to-right sequence before fusing. Use it as the balaenid flukes span audit. Rarest role Dark Eye occurs 1 times at R7C13. Recheck this role beside the balaenid flukes landmark. Padding audit: 3 top, 4 bottom; active bounds are R4–R15 and C1–C19. The balaenid flukes boundary must remain inside those limits.
Ways to customize this pattern
For an alternate edition, recolor Whale Blue, Dark Eye, White Belly as separate value roles while leaving every occupied coordinate and 19×19 normalization unchanged. Keep the silhouette-specific landmarks and rare accents distinct at thumbnail size.
Sort the source roles as 105 Whale Blue, 1 Dark Eye, 33 White Belly. Keep Dark Eye distinct even though it contributes only 1 cells; Brand remapping should preserve the same light-to-dark hierarchy and never merge an occupied role with background.
Print and iron checklist
The long back and belly edge can bow while the tail and fins cool. Fuse in horizontal sections, support the flukes during turnover, and flatten the piece between smooth boards. Inspect narrow joints from the reverse before mounting or exporting a replacement chart. Before export, verify the 19×19 coordinates, 139-bead total and all 3 active color roles against the on-page material list.
Project ideas for Blue Whale
The simplified profile works as a marine-mammal flashcard tile, nursery ocean mobile or whale-watch journal badge. Attach hanging hardware behind the central blue torso. Keep labels, dates and explanatory text on a separate backing so the approved silhouette stays unchanged.
The source grid uses B 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.
