Slow start with dark pink

Yesterday I took out the rest of the pink.
Those are all of the pieces that have any bit of dark pink.

So I had already sorted them by color combinations. But that left me with a LOT of pink-black pieces.
So there was some more sorting to do.
The kind that I will have to do over and over. I sorted them by shape. (remember, I mentioned in an earlier post the 8 different shapes I always sort in)

Than I started to lay them out.
First I did the "special" shapes.
When I came to the 2 "normal" shapes I had a little problem, there were a LOT of them.
I made the decision to lay the ones on the board with the straightest pink-black line. I figured they would make the boarder of some images and they would be easier to assemble.
I put them down in a way that would be easy for me to check if the pink-black line would connect to the piece that I already have.  So they are laid down by image on the piece, instead of my "normal" curvy holes and curvy hooks facing the same side together. If I do this here, the "straight" line will be facing every direction. Anyway ... Here is the result:

Than I tried to fit some pieces together ....


You see the couple of rows I have on the picture below? That probably took from 9:00 this morning until 15:00 this afternoon (with some small breaks in between).

NOT a great result!

But then.... I found this:

                                  

It's the left border of the middle Image, Image 21.

Now this is progress. 

So I continued but ....

a little later I found this: 

What's the problem with those 3 pieces? Wel the 2 on the left are identical And they both fit the right one:

But that's not all, it get's worse!

turns out there are 4 identical pieces! The shapes are exactly the same, the color is slightly different and the black-white line on the lower pieces is in a slightly different position.

And then it get's better!!

Because once you find one neighbour you know that there are 3 exactly the same shape of pieces to find. And if my sorting is any good, they should be in the neighbourhood!

You can see that when I stopped the image wasn't identical anymore. Maybe next time I will find the pieces that mach the left side!

So what is the end result of the whole day puzzling? 

This:

Compared to a "normal" coloured puzzle of around 4000 pieces not a great result, but it's a start.

I hope next time (not tomorrow, because I have other things to do) it will go a little quicker, but I don't have high hopes. I think that after a couple of more hours puzzling straight borders I will have to resort my "normal" shaped pink-black pieces in order to speed up the process.