monopoly

monopoly

have I mentioned before that I am a little bit of a monopoly game addict?  I play against the computer (on my phone) and mostly I win and the game takes about 15 – 20 mins.  Well this week I had the most extraordinary game I’ve ever had- it took 3 days (on and off obviously) and look at how much cash I had!  $52.6K! This photo I took a few minutes before the game finally ended.   I didn’t even know you could get to that much cash in Monopoly!  It was touch and go for a goodish part of the game- before either of us had any sets we both had stacks of cash and his bank balance got quite high in some spots aswell.

monopoly

In other news I came across this pattern for a jumper for my sister in law (navyish yarn I bought from the UK which when it arrived was a bit purply for my wear) but she likes it, and I’ve started on 1 of the triangular panels but I’m a bit worried because whenever I crochet up a sample swatch gauge I can never get mine to measure the same width as height like it’s supposed to…

acute crochet sweater

so who knows whether it will turn out the right size in the end?  I’ve a feeling that it will be wide enough but not tall enough (like my sample swatch), and I’m not quite sure what to do…