JULY 23, 2020
I lived on the second and third floors of a house with four girls, during my final year of Fashion College. Three of us were in fashion design and one was in fashion merchandising, although I always wondered why she didn’t pursue fashion design because she was a shoo-in with her expertise in clothing construction.
We all made things outside of our assignments for school. Whether it was refinishing a dresser painted with cheery yellow paint, knitting a sweater, making a silver necklace for a boyfriend, creating objects for the school Christmas bazaar or gifts for each other; there was a lot of creating going on.
When I met Jim, backgammon was a popular game among his university friends. The box that held the game was easily portable to the school pub and an affordable entertainment that offered an alternative way to converse with friends without going so heavily to drinks.
I made this folding backgammon game for Jim’s Christmas gift.
Backgammon, a game of skill, is an ancient game, older than chess, and is a member of one of the oldest classes of board games.
Two players move their 15 checkers (game pieces) around twenty-four triangular points according to the throw of two dice, the winner being the first to remove all their pieces from the board.
I made a storage bag for the checkers and dice.
The present was a complete surprise! Merry Christmas always Jim.