Card Trick
Four fabrics form four square cards turned on point that overlap in a pinwheel around the centre, built from half-square-triangle corners, three-piece side units and a four-colour quarter-square-triangle centre.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Grid Type
- nine-patch
- Piece Count
- 24
- Tags
- nine-patchhstqstintermediatetraditional
- Also appears in
- Nine Patch
Construction Tips
Each side unit joins a background and a card quarter triangle to a large triangle of the neighbouring card; lay out all nine units before sewing to keep the colours in order.
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