Section "C" Complete! - 1 of 8 sections done.

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.

Organizing the pieces is key

Top-left quadrant being built on top of the completed top-right quadrant

Knowing the shape of the piece you are looking for when building one section on top of another is really helpful

Only the white part left to do

Not only did we organize the white pieces by shape, we found all the duplicates and stacked them together

Section "C" Complete!

Let the fun begin!!!

We started building our first section of the puzzle at 7:00pm on Jan 5th, 2011.  

We decided to start with section "C" which is the third section on the top from the left.

Sorting colors took about an hour and the organizing of the pieces for the colors we choose to start on took about an hour.  We figure the first section will be the hardest since we don't have a piece pattern to work from.  The remaining sections will be a lot easier.

32000 piece "Double Retrospect" puzzle is in the house!!

The 32000 piece "Double Retrospect" puzzle arrived from Belgium today.  Took almost a month to get here.  It even came with a hand cart to move it around.

Oh well, I can't even start it yet as I have about 2600 more pieces of a section of the 18000 piece Skylines puzzle to finish first.