Spider Web
Eight triangular wedges, each pieced from strips parallel to its outer edge, join into an octagon so the strips read as concentric rings of a web; plain triangles fill the corners.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Grid Type
- strip
- Piece Count
- 36
- Tags
- stripstrip-setintermediatetraditional
- Also appears in
- Log Cabin
Construction Tips
String-piece the wedges on a foundation or cut them from strip sets with a 45 degree wedge ruler, keeping ring order the same in every wedge.
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