Miller's Daughter
Eight triangle points around a checkerboard nine-patch centre, with background squares at the corners and at the middle of each edge.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Grid Type
- five-patch
- Piece Count
- 33
- Tags
- five-patchhstbeginnertraditional
- Also appears in
- Five and Seven Patch
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