February’s monthly challenge of completing a 2000 piece puzzle is complete. The last piece was actually placed today, at 10.45am on 1st March, but what’s an extra day between friends!?
It was quite a challenge in the end. Not as easy as I thought it would be.
Here are a few thoughts:
- 2000 pieces is a lot of pieces – most of the time is spent sorting through them all.
- It’s very difficult to do it in the evening – the light reflects off all the pieces – so you need the natural daylight – which means most is done at the weekends.
- Space – you need plenty of room and to put up with it sitting there for the entire time – this puzzle was 38in x 26in – luckily there was a board in the garage it would fit on.
- The actual puzzle, forgetting it was 2000 pieces, was quite difficult – lots of similar blocks of colour: sky, trees, mountains, water, and all spread across the image.
And a few lessons I have learned through the process:
- Sort pieces into the various colours at the beginning, it will save you lots of time.
- The shapes of the pieces are key, when completing big blocks of colour, sort pieces into the different shapes, makes to loads easier.
- Take care of your back! Lots of leaning – take breaks and stretch the back out regularly!
- And finally, the most important lesson I’ve learned, don’t do puzzles.
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