Short, practical notes on color matching, bead sizes and printing your patterns.
Three brands dominate fuse beads, and their bead sizes are not interchangeable. Here is how the diameters, color counts and melting behaviour differ, and which one to start with.
Small, forgiving projects that finish in under an hour: pixel fruit, a coaster set, a keychain initial. Each idea lists the grid size and color count you need.
Single-sided or double-sided, how hot, how long, and why your plate warps. A practical checklist you can keep next to the iron.
Most first attempts look muddy because the grid is too fine and the palette too wide. Fix the resolution, cap the colors, and clean the background before you convert.
What you actually need to buy, how hot the iron should be, and the three mistakes that ruin most first projects. No prior crafting experience assumed.
The first public release: in-browser pixelation, brand color matching, a printable pattern sheet and a bead shopping list. Everything runs locally, nothing is uploaded.