The classic children’s board game receives a new lease of life as a playmat, in a whirl of colourful dots! Instructions for game pieces and an oversized dice are included, and with the soft fleece backing it makes a cosy blanket too.
Stitch a playmat
Cut out 10, 21cm squares in red spotty fabric and another 10 in blue fabric. Arrange the squares in a four by five checkerboard formation. Sew the four rows of five squares together, in a long strip. Then stitch the strips together to form a patchwork top for the blanket.
Download the templates. Print and piece together as necessary. Trace the numbers, snakes and ladder shapes onto paper, then turn them over and trace them onto the paper side of fusible webbing. Roughly cut out the shapes, then following the manufacturer’s instructions, iron the snakes and ladders onto the wrong side of different coloured spotty fabrics. Iron the even numbers onto blue fabric and the odds onto red. Cut out the shapes.
Using the photo as a guide, arrange the numbers, snakes, and ladders onto the patchwork t