Two koi circle each other in dark pond water — one white with orange patches, one deep orange — with lily pads punctuating the surface. Koi ponds work beautifully as drill charts because the composition is really three layers of flat shape: near-black water, boldly patterned fish, round green pads. The dark water does double duty, making the koi glow the way they do in a real garden pond at dusk, and giving you long meditative runs of a single deep blue-green. The koi patches are the design’s signature: each patch is its own solid region with a hard boundary, so the classic kohaku-style pattern stays graphic and crisp instead of smearing. A few pale drills suggest ripples where fins break the surface. The mood is calmer than most kits on this shelf — closer to a zen garden than a craft fair — which makes it a fit for offices, studios, and anyone who finds fish more soothing than flowers.
The chart, measured
Every number on this page is read from this design’s actual manufacturing chart — the same
file the 106×106 symbol canvas is printed from — not estimated for marketing.
| Spec |
Value |
| Canvas |
30 × 30 cm (11.8″ × 11.8″) |
| Grid |
106 × 106 cells |
| Drills |
11,236 round drills (2.8 mm), full-drill coverage |
| Colors |
14 DMC colors, individually bagged |
14 DMC colors over 11,236 drills is a mid-complexity build — enough palette changes to stay interesting, not enough to feel like admin. The workload skews teal: 3 of the 14 colors are teal steps, covering 59% of the canvas, with DMC 3849 alone accounting for 33% (3,704 drills). 5 accent colors each cover under 1% of the canvas — small bags that carry the highlights, so keep them sorted.
Full DMC palette (14 colors)
Your chart doubles as a shopping list — the complete palette with exact per-color counts:
| DMC code |
Hue |
Drills |
Canvas share |
| DMC 3849 |
teal |
3,704 |
33.0% |
| DMC 3848 |
teal |
2,277 |
20.3% |
| DMC 939 |
deep blue |
1,486 |
13.2% |
| DMC 704 |
green |
1,258 |
11.2% |
| DMC 986 |
green |
714 |
6.4% |
| DMC 3765 |
teal |
611 |
5.4% |
| DMC 819 |
pale orange |
443 |
3.9% |
| DMC 318 |
gray |
149 |
1.3% |
| DMC 604 |
pale red |
121 |
1.1% |
| DMC 947 |
red |
111 |
1.0% |
| DMC 3771 |
orange |
107 |
1.0% |
| DMC 309 |
red |
94 |
0.8% |
| DMC 970 |
orange |
89 |
0.8% |
| DMC 823 |
deep blue |
72 |
0.6% |
Chart-true by construction
The mockup above is rendered drill-by-drill from the finished chart (11,236 cells,
14 colors — the exact numbers in the tables), using the deterministic pipeline
that processes every Pixelmade order: saliency-weighted DMC selection, nearest-color
mapping, no dithering. What you approve is what gets printed. Each kit is made to order —
printed, picked, and packed when you buy, MOQ 1.
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