I want ot make al my gifts this year. Since I began quilting, that is all I wish to do! Go figure, right? Well, I have a girl int he family who loves board games, so I thought I'd make a quilted checker board and make the chips from Yo yo's. Does anyone know of any other quilted games to make? I've seen the Sudoku quilt's, I thought about making a grid board and keep the 9 sets of 9 blocks separate so you could have a different game each time. Any ideas?

Sorry I don't have any ideas for you but I like the idea. I'm curious to see the responses to this. Good luck. :thumbup:

How about Parcheesi, with buttons for the playing pieces? We used to have a game called Tribulation that had a 10x10 grid of random numbers 1-9. You drew a number from the pile (1-50) and you got a point (we just kept the number chip we found) if you were the first one to find a 3 number combination that equaled that number (25 could be 9x2+7 or 6x5-5). The 3 numbers had to be in order, in a straight line, and touch on a side or corner. I made one for my kids at school and wrote the 1-50 numbers on poker chips. Winner was the one with the most points when the last number combo was found. It was a lot of fun!

backgammon comes to mind. might work???

Twister. I'm not quite sure how you'd make the spinner, but the big mat with the circles would be an interesting quilt. IMO

Twister would be very interesting. I think it would be better on a quilt than on that slippery mat they give you when you buy it in the store.

Tic - tac - toe would be simple... could use yo-yos for this too.

Tripoli I have made one and it is awsome!!!

I made a suduko one and it was rough because I kept misplacing the numbers!

That would be a great idea !! And a great way to practise points too.

They all sound good! i've never played Tribulation, Backgamon, or Tripoli. I'll have to google the rules! I love twister ND THE TIC TAC TOE would be easy.

There's fabric that's printed with a regular size Monopoly board. All you need to do is get the other pieces. I bought several old Monopoly games on garage sales until I had enough pieces to make up the game.

sometime-------------I intend to make a checkerboard with quilt blocks----------except each black square will be a counted cross stitch block rather than pieced. If I can ever find 32 patterns that are about the same sized.

tic tac toe

That sounds like it will take too long, but oh so nice it will be!

Ropes and ladders (aka chutes and ladders)

There's a game board pattern on Kaye Wood's site that looks pretty cute. It has three or four games on it. She also has a video showing how to make it. I think you can even watch part of the video in her free section.

there is a pattern for a game quilt out there that has 5 or 6 games on it. I made those one year for my grandsons and put different games on each quilt. Was a very good inventment. Can be used over an dover again.

I recently saw where someone had placed circle magnets inside a quilt tic tac toe game and then the pieces also had a circle magnet in each piece. You could also do this with a checker board.
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Oh my goodness The possibilities are endless. What about Backgammon? Look at any boardgame and have fun. Should be an interesting project,

What a great idea to use yo yos for the checker pieces. I have a pattern that calls for buttons like the yo yos better.

IBEQUILTIN is your avatar a pom? She's beautiful.

Nordicneedle,com hás a nice pattern for a chessboard in cross counted stitches Blackwork, thjs company specializes in embroidery, it publishes a newsletter very interesting .

If you get the CandyLand fabric, or Monopoly, they have the board in the fabric, so you could use that to make the game

My mom made a game quilt. It has Checkers, some dolls to play dress up, Chutes and Ladders, hopscotch, and a couple more. There are 6 different games on it and a score board made from the chalkboard material (it's attached with velcro because it can't go in the washing machine) There is a pocket by each game board with the pieces for it. It's a christmas present so I'm assuming that we will have to play with it lots at christmas.

Sorry it duplicated my reply

how about a bean bag toss gme,, like a hpscotch with points (almost like shuffleboard)

I made a whole bagful of "homade" game. Tic-Tac-Toe, Tripoly (Michigan rummy, hearts and poker can be played with this board-I stuffed the lines around the sections to make wells), Jinx (a board game using dice and pawns). I used bingo chips with a variety of stickers. Backgammon is another game that could be made. I found that I tried to used an already existing game and tried to mimic the same shapes or aleast have the same number of coresponding pieces. I use a pencil bag to hold all the piece and dice. I even used small party favors for Tic-Tac-Toe pieces

This is what I made my grandson years ago because we liked to play games together. Hope you can find one. it is by quiltsmart (Quiltsmart.com). It only took a couple weeks to make the whole thing and he really loved it. Dee....I took pieces from dollar store games and made a matching bag for them with his name on it.

How about yoyo's over button's to give them weight.

cool!

I love it! Thank you!

Use plastic soda bottle caps inside the YoYo for stability.

look what I found!

Mancala could work, yo-yos or yarn balls there too. Love your idea by the way!

I just made a Monopoly quilt top. The fabrics and pattern were from Quilted Treasures, I believe. i will post it soon. Before that, I made a QBert quilt, which is an old video game. There are pics of it on the older section of the Pictures. My son, who is 29, collects board games, and most of the quilts I've made him are from video games. I think they are coming out with Scrabble fabric, too, so I think that will be the next one.

I made a quilt for my father in law's cabin....it was made of 2 1/2" squares then had black fabric strips through out. It was a maze with the black strips, only one went from one side to the other. Then the other game on the quilt was there were only 2 squares that were the same fabric, so you had to find the matching fabrics.

I thought this one was cute

http://modifytradition.blogspot.com/...-checkers.html

I have started a checkerboard and will make the game pieces by cutting out round circles (2 1/2") and fusing to double sided fusible material. I have made a Sudoku quilt a couple of years ago using African fabrics. I want to make a larger one with actual Sudoku theme fabric I purchased for the backing and random numbered squares. Patterns were available for Bacgammon and Parcheesi a few years ago for purchase. There may be others as well. Also, I have seen patterns for a crossword puzzle and puzzle pieces.

Midwestqltr

Has anyone made the Fons and Porter Bingo game? It was printed in one of their magazines about 5 years ago.

Would love to see a pic of your quilt!! Sounds intriguing
Heather :)