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
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Laid out like Bear's Paw, but the small triangles sit with their long sides against the outer edge and share the corner-square fabric, so each large square is trimmed with a sawtooth of chickens.
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Queen Charlotte's Crown
A diagonal five-patch: large half-square triangles fill two opposite corners, and the other two corners are squares with pairs of small triangle points on each side, around a stepped block of centre squares.
Duck and Ducklings
Each corner is a birds-in-the-air unit: a large triangle pointing out to the corner with one small triangle following it, around a background cross and a small centre square.
Balkan Puzzle
Sixteen half-square triangles: a square on point in the centre, framed by triangles, with two sets of geese chasing each other around the edges in a pinwheel.
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