Saturday, 1 February 2025

Travel Ludo / Chess / Checkers

Made a chess / checkers / ludo travel board game.

The Fibonacci spiral themed Ludo (or Parchisi or Uckers or Sorry! or Fia or Mens Erger Je Niet or one of the two dozen other names it's known as around the world) is 8 separate embroidered pieces sewn to a piece of pack cloth.

The chess/checkers side is 1½" ribbon sewn to a piece of pack cloth.

Two sides sewn together with a zipper at one end to store the game pieces inside.

I opted for the game pieces to be flat discs to keep it all as portable as possible. All the pieces are 2 embroidered pieces sewn together. Chess on one side (and the two sides have different designs), and blank for the checkers side.

The dice I created an .stl file for and 3D printed.

It's imperfect, not 100% straight, some of the lines are a little wobbly, but I'm still happy with it.

And it could double as a cushion cover in a pinch. ;-Þ

Skull'mups

 
The Skull'mups, the world's first 3D embroidered skull coin purse.

Can hold a lot more coins than I reckoned it would. 
On the back are belt loops, so you can wear it on your belt, slip your fingers through so that you don't accidentally drop your valuable coin horde if you're walking along at night, or undo the snaps so you can flail it through the air like you just don't care.
Constructed from 6 individual pieces. I know the photo only shows 5, but I added another piece to add some more rise in the eye sockets.

Drawn in Adobe Illustrator. Digitized in Wilcom Digitizer. Run on a Janome MC500e. Sewn together by hand with a needle and thread.

Very happy with how it turned out, but of course, already thinking of how I could make it better.... 💀