Grandmother's Choice
An uneven nine-patch on a five-patch grid: each corner is a large triangle unit whose outer half is a small square flanked by two small triangles, set around a cross of bars with a square at the centre.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Grid Type
- five-patch
- Piece Count
- 21
- Tags
- five-patchhstbeginnertraditional
- Also appears in
- Five and Seven Patch
Construction Tips
Piece each corner as a square plus two triangles joined into a large triangle, then add the large background triangle. Join corners, bars and centre in three rows.
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