Perler TARDIS tutorial

My Perler TARDIS post from a few days ago was a huge hit! I’ve gotten a few people asking for a pattern. And so, here’s my best attempt at a pattern and tutorial. I kind of made this up as I went so forgive me if it’s hard to understand.

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Materials

• 152 black beads
• 252 white beads
• 1433 dark blue beads
• 1780 light blue beads
• 24 glow in the dark beads
• 2+ large pegboards
• Perler ironing paper or parchment paper
• 1.5 skeins of black embroidery floss
• .5 skein white embroidery floss
• .5 skein light blue floss
• .5 skein dark blue floss
• iron
• hot glue gun

1. Make all pieces as shown. Note when multiple pieces are needed. For example, the light blue box that says “Top x3” needs to be made 3 times. For the light at the top make sure you do the glow in the dark beads properly (see finished product below). Allow pieces to cool under something heavy to keep them flat.
2. Using embroidery thread, stitch details onto perler pieces, being sure that they will look right when finished.
3. Using embroidery thread, stitch the light blue “Top” pieces together with the thicker piece on top.
4. Stitch the dark blue “Top” pieces onto the light blue pieces with the thicker piece in the middle connecting everything together.
5. Snap the light together and slide the two prongs into the hole in the dark blue “Top” piece. Hot glue the prongs on the underside to keep it secure (either now or later). Set the whole top assembly aside.
6. Snap the body of the TARDIS together and hot glue the joint securely from the inside.
7. Snap base pieces (minus large square bottom) together. Turn TARDIS body upside down and hot glue the base pieces together, making sure to leave room for large square bottom.
8. Quickly glue and place the large square bottom. I only glued along two sides as my hot glue was cooling too quickly. Do NOT attempt to melt the hot glue as you will damage your TARDIS.
9. Turn TARDIS right side up. Snap Police Box pieces together and hot glue to the top of the body. Make sure to leave enough room that the lid (which we set aside before) will fit fairly level.
10. Allow everything to cool and fill with anything you want–it’s bigger on the inside!!