1/8 th DONE!

Yes,
Finally,
I made it.

All the pink pieces (except 3!) are down!

Don't worry I'll put them down, but really it wasn't worth my time trying to find where they belong.
I did look, but couldn't find it and I will find the spots eventually. For now they are laying on the side.

So here are pictures from what I've got so far:

(If you want to see a bigger picture you can find them here:
Picasa album Dubble Retrospect

And now you ask?

The next colour to do is orange. Not sure if there is light and dark orange, but I think so.
(Or must I say I HOPE so!)

But for now I need to make my Christmas cards ASAP! So no more working on this puzzle for the time being. It will probably be 2015 when I start on the Orange.

To rotate or not to rotate.

My head has been going from confused to understanding to confused again and I think now I understand it a bit.

What am I talking about? The cutting pattern.

Because the drawing on this puzzle is so simple, it is hard to find pieces according to the image. It's easier and faster to try and find the same shaped pieces. To do this efficiently I need to figure out how the cutting pattern is repeated over the whole puzzle.

The day before yesterday, I told Pim that I had found out that the pattern rotated 180 degrees. So the right top corner of Image 26 matched a bottom left corner of an other image.

But then yesterday, when I was trying to figure out what images I saw this in, I saw that top right corners of both images matched. So I thought I was confused the evening before and didn't mention it in my blog, I even told Pim that apparently my crazy idea of rotation was just confusion.

Than today I was confused again because suddenly the pattern was rotated again. Turns out I was looking at 3 different images: the top right corner of Image 18 matched Image 26 AND the left bottom corner of Image 3!

Since I already have found pieces of the same shape I tried to figure out to what image they belonged. With the rotating pattern and the fact that pieces of different images get mixed sometimes, it is really hard and hair pulling sometimes.

So I know for sure that the patterns of Image 26 and 27 are 180 degrees turned. And Image 3 has the same orientation as 27 but rotated to 26.

For now this is my conclusion:
Image 2 , 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 30 have the same cutting pattern
Image 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 and 31 have the same cutting pattern too, but turned 180 degrees.

The question now is what about the others?

I will know for sure once I'm done with all the pink.

Getting annoyed!

It's been a while since I last posted something but  I didn't touch my puzzle for about 2 months. We were traveling and had a lot of guests, so the puzzle stayed tucked away.

Until last week, when I finally pulled it out again.
Here is where I left off:

It took a couple of days to get used to it again. It was slow, really slow.

But yesterday I had an idea. I had already put away the light pink that was done, but maybe I could mach patterns!

It worked. Above you see image 26 (backwards bending guy) and underneath image 18.

Now, this seems like great progress, and it is great progress, so why would I get annoyed you might ask.
Well, while putting together that nice piece of puzzle I find all those pieces that fit, but don't mach!
Take a look:

These 3 rows have the same shaped pieces. the top row is ok, but in the two rows underneath the pieces fit, but the drawing doesn't mach. There must be more versions, but I just can't find all the other pieces!

The biggest dilemma here is what do I do with it? keep it like this, put it aside and try to remember I have these pieces lying somewhere, or take it apart and put them back in my sorted pieces by shape? I'm not sure yet! Maybe I will take away the pieces that clearly don't belong and keep the rest.

Will keep you posted.