How Do I Design a Brick Stitch Earring or Charm Pattern?

Step 1: Pick Your Orientation

Choose how your charm will sit: Horizontal or Vertical grids.

Step 2: Select Your Grid Size

Use one of the 3 standard sizes or switch to Custom — build anything from tiny motifs up to a 200 × 200 bead grid.

Step 3: Start Designing

Play with creative tools:

• Inspiration Image to auto-map colorsPro
• Stickers for quick shapesAdd-on or Pro
• Fill and Copy/Paste for fast pattern building
• Symmetry to mirror as you paintPro

Step 4: Export Your PatternPDF: Pro

Your charm design can generate as a PNG or PDF word chart that’s fully compatible for stitching charms.

Step 1: Add Any Photo

Upload any image — a charm, artwork, selfie, color palette, or inspo pic. The app instantly maps the photo’s colors into your bead grid.

Step 2: Adjust the Mapping

Make the image fit your design perfectly by:

• Re-sizing the photo inside the grid
• Rotating it to find the best angle
• Flipping it left to right for new compositions

Step 3: Finalize Your Pattern

Once the image mapping looks right, continue designing with stickers, fill, symmetry, and copy/paste to refine your design.

Step 1: Choose Your Top Shape

Pick the silhouette that defines your earring:

• Triangle
• Diamond • Star • Mandala • Circle • ButterflyAdd-on or Pro

Step 2: Choose the Width of the Topmost & Foundation RowsAdd-on or Pro

Set the bead count for the topmost row and the foundation row — this controls the overall width and structure of your earring top.

Step 3: Select Your Drop Style

Choose how many beads appear per row unit: One‑Drop (1 bead per unit) or Two‑Drop (2 beads per unit).

Step 4: Customize the Foundation Row Bead CountPro

Fine-tune the foundation row by choosing how many beads tall it is (1 to 4), giving you full control over how the fringe will hang.

Step 1: Beading Mode Works Everywhere

Use Beading Mode for all Charm layouts and all Earring patterns — it shows you exactly how your rows and strands will stitch.

Step 2: Choose Your Top Direction

For the top of the earring, you can stitch in either direction:

• Bottom → Top (default)
• Top → Bottom (reverse direction)

Step 3: Fringe Direction

Fringe strands always move Left → Right, column by column, so your bead chart stays consistent and easy to follow.

Step 4: Start at the Base Row (or Base Column)

Charm patterns always begin at the base row (the base column on vertical grids), then you choose the direction:

• Horizontal Grids: Up → Down or Down → Up
• Vertical Grids: Left → Right or Right → Left

This gives you full control over how your charm builds across the grid.

Step 5: Prefer Paper? Export the PDF

Print a Full Word Chart anytime:

• Earrings include both the top and the fringe
• Charms start at the base row (or base column), work out to one edge, then return to finish the other side

Perfect for beading offline or keeping a clean stitching reference.

Step 1: Choose Your Color Palette

Start designing with the built-in palettes:

• Free Palette — a robust, full color wheel selection available to everyone
• Metallic, Neon, Pastel, Skin Tone — special palettes unlocked with add-ons or ProAdd-on or Pro

Every color in every palette is matched to the closest Miyuki Delica bead, and its DB code is listed in the color key of your PNG and PDF.

Step 2: Use Your My Colors ListPro

Keep your favorite shades handy while designing.

• Pin Color — tap Pin to save any color to your My Colors list
• Add Your Own Colors — enter any HEX code to create custom bead colors
• Delete Colors — use the Edit button to remove colors you no longer need

Your My Colors list becomes your personal bead tray — always within reach.

Step 3: Design Faster With Saved ColorsPro

As you work on charms or earrings, your pinned and custom colors stay visible so you can switch shades instantly without hunting through palettes.

Step 1: Fill

Fill an entire pattern at once with a single color — instant full‑grid coloring.

Step 2: SymmetryPro

One stroke, two sides — Symmetry mirrors your painting automatically.

Step 3: ABC Mode

ABC assigns a unique letter to each color for clean, easy word charts.

Step 4: Bead Shape Toggle

Switch between Delica cylinders and round seed beads with one tap.

Step 5: Select, Copy & Paste

Use Select to highlight any section of beads, Copy it, then tap or drag to place it exactly where you want and tap Paste.

Step 1: Choose Your Fringe Shape

Pick the style that defines how your strands fall:

• Chevron
• Rectangular • DiagonalAdd-on or Pro

Step 2: Set Your Fringe Length

Choose how long your strands will be:

• Short • Medium • Long
• Custom for full control — up to 100 beads on the longest strand (minimum is 1 bead)Pro

Step 3: Build Your Fringe

Once shape and length are set, design each strand with your tools: fill, symmetry, select, copy/paste, and your saved colors.

Step 1: Choose Your Pattern Design

Pick from the 4 custom pattern designs available today — with more coming in future updates.

Step 2: Set Your Fringe Shape & Length

Select your fringe style (Chevron, Rectangular, Diagonal) and choose the length (Short, Medium, Long). The Eagle’s feather fringe is part of its design, so it offers the length choice only.

Step 3: Start Designing Instantly

Your pattern opens directly in the designer, fully set up and ready for you to customize with colors, tools, symmetry, stickers, and inspiration images.

Step 1: Open a Sticker Pack

Choose from your options:

• Shapes — hearts, diamonds, circles, moons, and stars
• Spooky — bats, a spider, a pumpkin, a skull, and boo

Step 2: Tap Any Sticker to Place It

Select a sticker and tap anywhere on your grid to drop it instantly into your design.

Step 3: Flip and Place

Adjust the sticker to fit your pattern:

• Flip to mirror it left to right
• Tap the exact bead where you want it to land

Step 4: Use Multiple Stickers

Layer as many stickers as you like — mix shapes and spooky elements to build unique designs fast.

Step 5: Continue Designing

Blend stickers with your colors, symmetry, fill, select/copy/paste, and inspiration images for polished, creative results.