Final Assembly Day!

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, World's Largest Puzzle Progress

The World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle is finally put together! It was amazing to see the entire puzzle assembled, all 10 sections completed and connected. WOW! You can know the measurements in your head, but then seeing it in person is another thing altogether. It’s a beautiful puzzle, and it fit together perfectly; it was stunning in it’s enormity – I can hardly believe I did all that!

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This is myself, mom, and my 3 children.  Not the best picture, but at least it gives you scale, that’s one enormous puzzle! When you look back at the pictures I took along the way, the every day updates, each section looks like your average size puzzle, nothing too extraordinary. This picture gives you a much better appreciation for just how large each section actually is!

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So everyone there who was taking pictures was supposed to send them to me too, so I could pick the best ones for the blog. Of course no one has so far, so unfortunately the pictures I have aren’t the best ones from the day. The one above is a good one taken by a friend of my parents (although I’m unclear why my oldest son is crouched like a frog – he’s just got to be himself I guess!)

My husband arranged for a professional photographer to come and take pics of the puzzle, so I’m hoping when I get those they’ll be awesome pictures to share. 😎 We left the puzzle at the church Saturday night, and are going back to get more pictures today and to package it back up into it’s 10 sections. Hopefully in a day or so everyone will have forwarded me all the pictures and I can pick the best ones to show.

I was so nervous and anxious all morning! I can’t explain exactly why, but I was worried that a section would fall apart or something would go wrong.  (I’m a worrier – an almost Olympic level, award winning worrier) But everything went smoothly thank goodness! It’s hard to believe that this puzzle took up 6 months of my life! 😮

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I have to say I’m pretty darn proud of myself! This is quite the accomplishment, and not a lot of people can say they’ve actually assembled the world’s largest commercially available jigsaw puzzle! I can – I did it!!

Again, tons of thanks to my dad and husband for doing all the heavy lifting and carting things around for the big day. And to mom for helping me make cookies and refreshments for everyone who came out to see the puzzle; to my 3 wonderful kids for showing up for mom’s weird puzzle day and being good sports about it. Thanks also to everyone who showed up to share my accomplishment today, it meant so much to me!

I’m hoping to have more pictures of the completed puzzle in the next few days to share with everyone, but at the very least I wanted to get a few of them in today’s post – because I promised I would.

I’m wiped out! Exhaustion has set in, I overdid it getting all of this set up and accomplished and will definitely be paying for it for the next few days – but it was worth it! This is not something that happens every day, so I wanted to enjoy it, and I did. I completed the Guinness World Record Largest Jigsaw Puzzle! I’m proud of myself, grateful to all my family and friends for their help, support, and encouragement; and thankful that I have this blog where I can share my puzzles with you.

I may be posting lots more pictures of the puzzle in the next few days, bear with me. I’m a proud momma who wants to show off her adorable overly large baby to everyone! 😉

23 thoughts on “Final Assembly Day!”

  4. Adalberto Alguero

    Fantastic job. I am just started my piece. I have a very bad eyesight. I began with Snow White. Would it be possible you can send me closeup photos of each panel so I can solve it looking at the jigsaw photos. I would appreciate this gesture very much. Thank you for your time, I am from Panama and probably the only one doing this puzzle in Central America

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  5. Cat

    Great job!!! I too purchased this puzzle. Just started with Snow White. Almost done. Working on the twinkles and having a hard time. Not sure if it’s my lighting or my eyeballs. So what did you end up doing with the completed puzzle? I don’t have a big enough wall to display it. However my fence in the backyard could display it. Just have to figure out how to make it weatherproofand all.

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  6. Violet Skye

    Just found your blog by chance, and had to comment on what an awesome job to get this done ! It’s my dream puzzle to get, mainly as it’s so expensive to buy, one day I hope, I have what I think is an awesome place for the finished place and it’s my ‘one day’ end up place too .. I’m sure any hospital with a children’s ward, a children’s hospital, or any place similar would LOVE having this framing the corridors, or even above kiddies beds, imagine all the smiles it could bring. Anyway love your blog and I’ll be lurking around 🙂

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  7. WOW!!! I discovered your blog site today, and I must say that 40,000 plus puzzle is IMPRESSIVE AND UTTERLY GORGEOUS. I just started doing jigsaw puzzles in October of 2017 and absolutely love this Hobby….Since then the largest puzzle, I have assembled was a 3000 piece Ravensburger Antique Map Puzzle. But today I purchased a 5000 piece Ravensburger Puzzle THE TOWER OF BABEL, just because it was on sale at Amazon, but I was simply going to let it be an interesting conversation piece on display, but after seeing your completed 40,000 plus Puzzle, I think I may try to assemble it.

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  11. Sarah

    Hi. I just received this puzzle and started it yesterday. My 4 year old is a wiz at puzzles. He finishes 1000 piece puzzles with ease. We decided to get this puzzle and do it together, as we know it will be a memory we cherish. I was a bit overwhelmed starting with Snow White. At this point I am separating everything out by color. Do you have any tips or tricks that you’d recommend? Also did you do them in the ten pieces and then put them all together as one at the end? If you can provide me with any helpful tips or close up photos that would be great. You did a great job and should be SO proud of yourself. Thanks again!

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    1. Separating colors is a great way to start, and then once you look more closely at each color you’ll be able to tell (hopefully) where it should go.

      I did each of the 10 sections separately and put them all together at a rented church hall at the end, I didn’t have a big enough space in my house to put it all together.

      Thanks for the kind words, and good luck with your giant project! It’s a fun puzzle. 🙂

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