Prickly Pear
A seven-patch with a sawtooth border of twenty half-square triangles and plain corner squares, enclosing a five-patch centre where eight triangles and five squares make an on-point star around a cross of accent squares. The sawtooth runs one way round, so the block has turning symmetry but no mirror.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Grid Type
- seven-patch
- Piece Count
- 77
- Tags
- seven-patchhstintermediatetraditional
- Also appears in
- Five and Seven Patch
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Grid Type
- seven-patch
- Piece Count
- 77
- Tags
- seven-patchhstintermediatetraditional
- Also appears in
- Five and Seven Patch
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