Kit calamita con perline «La felicità esiste!»

A mouse has settled right on top of a cupcake, holding a sprig of mimosa — “Happiness exists!” measures happiness in one serving of dessert.

What the picture shows

A cupcake in a brown-and-gold paper case stands at the bottom: the ridges are laid in beads with a metallic sheen, and the pink cap of icing is dotted with yellow and green sprinkles. A grey mouse sits on the icing — ears outlined in pink, paws and a long pink tail lifted up, a yellow mimosa on a green stem in its front paws. The background is a watercolour rainbow running from green and yellow at the top to coral below; it stays printed on the canvas, while the cupcake and the mouse are beaded. The paper case is picked up in vertical stripes, and it is these that give the piece its depth; the sprinkles are single beads laid over the icing.

What is in the kit

• Art canvas with a full-colour printed pattern — no need to follow a chart on screen
• Czech Preciosa #13 microbeads, 8 colours
• Needle for microbead embroidery
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Acrylic frame for mounting the finished piece
• Magnetic tape
• Instructions and mounting guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 55×55 mm (2.17×2.17 in)
• Beads: approx. 346
• Bead colours: 8
• Difficulty: simple
• Base: art canvas

The 55×55 mm piece is mounted in the round acrylic frame from the kit, with the magnetic tape on the back. At 346 beads this is the smallest count in the series, so the work goes faster than the rest. The rainbow print shows clearly between the rows of beads, so the piece should not be filled in more densely than the pattern asks. The subject suits a kitchen.