Originally Posted by
Gay
I believe it's also called Crown of Thorns. Don't know about easier method, but I see some flying geese and rectangles with corners snowballed, also strips cut on angles, if you don't mind waste.
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Crown of Thorns has a round center. I thought of Hands All Around and Eight Hands Around and neither of those is right either. I like how you sketched it out using Flying Geese. I'd do them around the outside as well. I love the lighter blue contrast in the center.