Puzzles, Books and More!: Kevin Walsh

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Puzzle #25 - Bits & Pieces - T Bird Summer - 300 pieces

Puzzle #25 of 2023
Finished March 31, 2023

Bits & Pieces T Bird Summer - 300 pieces

This image is by Kevin Walsh. I bought a whole set of Bits & Pieces puzzles by him because I really love the images so much. Glad I got them in 300, though. This would have been really hard in 1000 pieces with all that grass and trees. As it was, it was exactly what I was wanting... a simple and fast puzzle with an image that makes me smile. I hadn't done a 300 for a bit and this was just right. Now I'll move on to something a bit more challenging, but this was fun. I did have a problem with the bottom left border... had some pieces out of order and didn't realize it until the next row of pieces wouldn't fit together. Got it figured out but Bits & Pieces has a lot of pieces that look like border pieces with a straight edge that are not border pieces. So it is easy to get mixed up on the border. :)

What a fun puzzle image!

Puzzle #25 of 2023
Finished March 31, 2023

Bits & Pieces T Bird Summer - 300 pieces

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Puzzle #78 - Gibsons - Winter Cottages - 1000 pieces

Image by Kevin Walsh.

This is a lovely puzzle. Gibsons puzzles are such high quality. It is proving to be a bit trickier - not so many obvious areas to work on 'first'. But it is pleasant to do. I think I'll stick to my dreams of spending warmer months in Great Britain... I can do winter just fine here at home at Willis Creek Ranch. :) But in puzzle form, it works. I do love having a poster!

I finally had to just sort by shape and hammer it out. It was a nice puzzle but the colors were not the same on the pieces as in the poster. Or at least they were vague enough that it was really hard to distinguish. I could not make things out clearly enough to have a clue where a piece might go. At all. Even when I was putting a piece in a spot, it wasn't necessarily obvious that that piece 'went' there. :D BUT, I loved the image and adore Gibsons puzzles (SUCH THICK PIECES!) so this will not deter me from their company. Will just pay more attention to images and try to choose things that are more distinct.