backgammon

Backgammon

Tim and I recently took up playing backgammon at Yahoo Games. This

reminded me that I had a seen a patter n for such a board in my

weekend knitting book. With Valentine's Day approaching, I deemed this

knit through class, chapel and a few movies. When the board was knit,

I made a trip to the dollar store in search of some sort of hard back

and for pieces with which to play. I found just what I needed:

linoleum tiles and those flat marble things that are sometimes found

in fish tanks. My delight at making such a thrifty purchase was popped

along with two of my tires when I ran over a curb on the way home.

Anyway, I returned to Gordon and cut the tiles into squares and sewed

them into the board. The clever idea for the pieces I can't take

credit for; I was brow sing different artsy sites and stumbled upon

this one (I also loosely copied one of her sewing patterns and made a

skirt last weekend). I cut out and glued on hearts for one set of the

playing pieces and for the other used a picture of Tim and myself. I

finished up by sewing a little bag for the pieces and tied it all up

in a ribbon, and there you have it, happy valentine's day.

Tim and I played a number of times this past weekend, almost all of

which he won, proving his theory that the only reason I won most of

the games that we played online was because the computer gave me the