January 19, 2017 – My Jigsaw Journal

United Plates of America by Alan Holcombe – Bits and Pieces – 1000 pieces

This was a really fun puzzle for me. It was a thrift store purchase and well worth the 99 cents!

It’s by Bits and Pieces which seems like hit or miss quality to me. I’ve had great puzzles from them and really bad puzzles. So I guess I put them in the thrift store only category along with Sunsout; I have to be able to see and feel the pieces before I will purchase them. This puzzle I had no problem with the quality at all. You can see the pieces fit together well, the piece shape isn’t glaringly obvious in the finished puzzle and the image quality is very good.

Even with all the blue and the stripes of the flag it was only about medium difficulty, and wasn’t tedious for me at all. It was fun to assemble and I would definitely recommend it!

I know, not a great picture, lots of glare. But it does have the entire puzzle in the picture, which has not always been the case. 🙂

This section is going relatively quickly. I seem to have to take more breaks this week, but when I am able to sit down and work on it, it’s going well. I got as much of the light brown done as I can for the moment, and I just sorted a bunch of the white foam. I hope to be able to get a bit of the waves/foam done on the right side of the puzzle tomorrow.

I’m not sure if it’s going to continue to go well, or if it’s going to slow down and take more time. I look at the pieces that are left, and they’re all kind of similar and I have no idea where to go next. But I’m going to just keep plugging away, I will get there eventually.