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.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Grid Type
- five-patch
- Piece Count
- 29
- Tags
- five-patchhstintermediatetraditional
- Also appears in
- Five and Seven Patch
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