Where do I find patterns?

You wanna try and do some new things. Or, at least, you might wanna try and see what’s supposedlypossible.

Kandi Patterns is usually where you’ll find patterns this is most likely going to be your base of operations. This is the main hub for kandi stuff, and it’s been around for years.What if there’s nothing there that interests you, though? They have a photo section, but that might bore you too.

Pinterest, fulfilling it’s original idea, is full of inspiration. I think you need an account to search the site, though, and you probably won’t be able to narrow it down toomuch.

r/kandiandr/beadsprites have pictures of kandi and Perler/Hama/Artkal sprites, respectively.

If you want to do a specific Perler, I like to use the Beadifier. You can customize the brand of beads your generated pattern uses, how many boards it fits on, and the main usage of the site is to make a beadsprite pattern from a picture. It’s insanely useful. (P.S. if I use the Beadifier, I like to make a private pattern of it on Kandi Patterns so I know how many beads I’ll need. I usually never publish these generated patterns unless I modified them, because otherwise it was pretty effortless to make them.)

Once you get to a certain point, this doesn’t really help anymore. But searching for kandi tutorials on Youtube can give you some inspiration. I guess if you’re reading most of my posts, though, those may not be working for you.

Tiktok has a kandi tag that’s inspired me before. If you want something hard, you can always ask @/ghostinthecrowd if you can remake their designs. The worst that can happen is they say no, so it’s totally worth asking.

Then, if you’re feeling superlazy or tired or low or any combination of things, you can just make character or song singles. You can really do anything with singles, the possibilities are literally limitless. They can be as simple (like basic pony beads and letters) or as advanced (beads and charms and glow in the dark stars and colored letter beads) as you’d like. This is for you, so do whatever you have the energy/patience for.