Experimenting

[liadethornegge]

I've been playing around with the burn-pen and a piece of scrap wood working out how to make a nice-looking checkers board for helwig. So far that's the only thing I have to go on - she didn't know what she wanted on the reverse - but it's quite enough. I thought I'd try using some blackwork patterns to fill in the dark squares on the board. I printed out a few and tried them out on the scrap piece.

I think it looks neat, but I'm not sure if I want to use the same one pattern on all dark squares or if I should go fancy and do all different kinds. If I should align them so that half the board is "up" one way, and the other half the opposite. Or do one row of directional patterns - or do only the middle two non-directional. I dunno. It's fun playing around with it in any case :)

Also not sure I want to post a picture of my testing or not, so until I decide it will be "not" :)

Not sure what I can rustle up for game pieces. After a little bit of research checkers takes 2 x 12 pieces apparently. We'll see. Maybe I can get bone.

Most of my free time is now spent lolling about in the garden in the gorgeous sunny weather we're having. There are seats all around the garden here so I can move around with the sun or shade exactly as I please.

Comments

[helwig.livejournal.com]

I am sure it will turn out lovely!
I have been thinking about the game and have some thoughts about a backgammon board. Would it look strange on a square board or what to you think?

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't know. I think it might be wierd on a square board, yes, but I could do some decorations to "narrow the field" and do a backgammon board in the middle possibly.

How many game pieces does backgammon take then? :)

[helwig.livejournal.com]

I don´t have the foggiest idea...haven´t played for 10 years or so. I will do some research.

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Looks like 15 per side, plus a couple of dice

[oldergoddess.livejournal.com]

hehe, you have to many options, first thing when asking you to do something is narrow the options :D I am sure it will be lovely and you will have everyone asking for one :)

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

I know I have too many options! Which is why I can't really proceed just yet. I'm sure it'll be great, and I'll think of exactly how I wanted it right after I've made an irreversible decicion. It's not as if I can un-burn the wood once I put the mark in.