Tonight we completed section "C" of the 32000 piece "Double Retrospect" puzzle. Start to finish it took us approx. 7 days to complete. In actuality it took less than that because we had a trip to Arizona over the weekend. Sydney and Justin stayed behind and did a LOT of the work themselves. The next sections will go much faster (barring work and other events getting in the way) now that we have a piece shape reference to build on. Since each section has exactly the same piece shapes we can literally build each section on top of the other. It is a huge time saver. In fact, we found that within a section the left and right halves are also duplicates of each other. You'll see in the pictures below where we built one half of the section on top of the other.
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| Organizing the pieces is key |
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| Top-left quadrant being built on top of the completed top-right quadrant |
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| Knowing the shape of the piece you are looking for when building one section on top of another is really helpful |
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| Only the white part left to do |
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| Not only did we organize the white pieces by shape, we found all the duplicates and stacked them together |
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Section "C" Complete!
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Wow! That was super quick! It actually looks a little easier than I thought initially. Or maybe you guys just have a way of making it look easier than it really is! LOL
ReplyDeleteIt's neat that the subsections within each bag repeat. Makes it a lot easier I would suspect.
I am struggling with the zebras on the Life puzzle. Most everything else I've done so far has been pretty easy to figure out how to put together, but this one is driving me nuts. Since there are two of them, but it's not even so much that as there is quite a bit of variation in the two different animals. It's the stupid stripes going in different directions on the same zebra! Ugh.
I haven't seen an update in a while. Are you guys still working on the puzzle or taking a break? I've made some progress on mine finally. Not a lot, but at least a few things.
ReplyDeleteHaha, Hi Penny! Just had to check out this blog.
ReplyDeleteHi Slater Family! Very cool to see this one being done. I really have no interest in doing this one, since I personally think it quite ugly. But I suppose it's to be able to say you've done it. I am also, like Penny, working on "LIFE". I'm far from finished but I keep pluggin' away. I mixed the pieces and am doing it alone. So, it'll be awhile. Way to go on all your puzzles!