Take a trip down memory lane with this stitched fabric noughts and crosses set, which is a lovely tactile take on the traditional game. It’s ideal to take on your travels as all the counters fit neatly inside the board. It folds up compactly and has a handle to make it easy to carry and hang up to store.
Make a travel game
Cut two 34cm squares from lemon spotty fabric and set one aside. Cut two 9cm squares from pink cherry print, two from blue cherry and one from red cherry fabric. Find the centre of the large lemon square by folding it in half, creasing, then folding it in half the other way and making another crease.
Place the centre of the red cherry square onto the centre of the yellow square. Pin in place and machine stitch around it twice just in from the edge using red thread. Place the other four cherry squares so that the innermost corners of them are 1.5cm diagonally from the four corners of the red square. Stitch around each one twice in contrasting thread. Press on the reverse. This is the board front.
Cut a piece of wadding slightly larger than the yellow square and pin it to the back of the board front. Using red thread, machine stitch a grid comprising of three lines each 2mm apart,