When the Covid-19 Stay at Home came about I had a lot of extra time on my hands. The big question was how to fill up all of this time. One of the things I was hoping to do was to spend more time on writing blogs. I wrote several blogs but then got side tracked with spring cleaning, slides/negatives/pictures organization and puzzles. Over the past month I’ve completed eight puzzles between 200 and 500 pieces (with 2 having one piece missing). So to get back on track with my blogging I thought I would start again by writing about my puzzles.
As fun as it is to do puzzles none of these puzzles were super challenging. So after the first two puzzles I decided to not look at the picture during the time I was working on a puzzle. This made them a little more challenging and took longer to complete.
These eight puzzles were all I had except for a couple of 1,000 piece puzzles which I had previously done. I still wanted to work on puzzles so I borrowed five puzzles from my daughter. Now these will be challenging. All of them except one 500 piece puzzle are 1,000 pieces and are very detailed. These will each take me awhile to do.
Some hints when working on 500 pieces and less puzzles:
Separate the pieces by colors with the border pieces in its own group.
If there are a number of colors in one piece sort by dominate color.
If no dominate color make a miscellaneous group.
Some color groups may be in different sections so as the puzzle is being
worked on sub-divide these groups.
Complete the border first.
If it’s a puzzle without a border work on the larger colors first.
Work from the borders inwards picking one of the colors.
If you get stuck:
look in the miscellaneous group for a “missing” piece
look in another color group for a misplaced piece
switch to another color and come back later to this group
Most important: Have fun!!
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