Doing fuse bead crafts have been one of my favorite recent pastimes. It’s a natural fit for turning pixel art and retro video game sprites into something physical you can put in a frame or stick on your fridge. Plus, there’s something therapeutic about placing all of those tiny beads one by one into a pattern. At least until the cat knocks them all onto the floor.

With SaltCON End of Summer coming up, I wanted to create my own tabletop-gaming-themed fuse bead patterns. And so, without further ado…

It’s a meeple! These little guys are a board gaming standard, showing up in hundreds of different games in a dozen different colors. They’re great for representing workers or armies or pretty much any other human being.

The pattern linked above is a printable .pdf file sized to fit official Perler-brand pegboards and using Perler bead colors. It’s also colorblind- and grayscale-friendly, with numbers in each square. The key in the top right corner shows you which color corresponds to which number.

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If you make some meeples of your own, or have other questions or comments about the pattern, you can share them with me here or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I’d love to see what you make. Happy crafting!