Kansas Troubles
Four quarters turned around the centre; each is split on the diagonal into a large plain triangle and a pieced triangle whose mid-size triangle is edged with small sawtooth triangles.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Grid Type
- four-patch
- Piece Count
- 52
- Tags
- four-patchhstadvancedtraditional
- Also appears in
- Four Patch
Construction Tips
Drawn on an eight-by-eight grid (1.5 in units at 12 in). Sew the sawtooth strips, add them to the mid-size triangle, then join the large triangle.
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