Good Progress

This weekend I finally made some progress.
Even with the 4 new Gilmore Girls episodes that came out!
Anyway I worked mostly on Images 3, 12, 18 and 21.

Not bad for a weekend right?

Pattern mayhem!

During the weekend I mostly worked on Image 3 and  sorted and laid out all the special full Orange pieces.

Today I'm finally sure of the pattern. 

In the blog of November 11th 2014 I talk about finding a part of the pattern. The rest I would know once I was done with all the pink. 

Well, I figured it out today (or at least I think so). 

In November this is wat I figured out: 

"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."

So this is how I visualised it: 

The blue arrows point what way the pattern goes.

Then I found a second pattern on some Images and this one turned 180 degrees in some Images too. So Image 13 was pointing down, 12 up, 21 down and 29 down.  

At that point I assumed:

Blue Pattern:

Image 2,6,10,14,18, 22, 26 and 30

Blue Pattern turned 180 degrees:

Image 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 and 31

Red Pattern:

Image 4, 8, 12, 16, 120, 24, 28 and 32

Red Pattern turned 180 degrees:

Image 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 29.

Like this: 

Looked nice and simple, but then! Mayhem

I found this: Image 5 and 21 had the Blue pattern pointing up! 

Now how could I miss this before? Well the patterns don't always match up in the corner of the Image. They shift 1 or 2 rows up or down. 

So now the pattern is even simpler: 

But the puzzling so much more annoying, because that means even more exactly the same shaped pieces. 

This results in this piles like these: 

But still, it's progress. 

And while I was going through all the Images, I found Image 21 again, where I still had a lot of Black-Orange pieces to putdown. So that's what I did today. 

I need to hurry up if I want to be finished by Christmas!

Slow progress

It's not going fast!

But I made some progress on Image 12 and Image 18.

The little purple post-it notes are two the corresponding pieces on Image 12 and Image 18. It saves some time of I'm looking for something to have a couple of reference points.

Now that I look back at these Images from right after I finished all the pink,

it doesn't look so bad.
I did connect a little more, from Image 23 and from some random Images, but not much.

However I did lay out all the "normal" Black-Orange pieces too.
This is how it looks like. (you will understand that I banned kids from playing hide and seek in this room :)

Next step laying out all whole Orange pieces, because as you can see I could really use them in Image 12 and 18.

The next 2 weeks Pim is on a trip to Australia, so I will have lots of evening time to make some progress.

Annoyed already :)

Yesterday I did finish the baby from Image 29.

And I sorted all black-dark orange pieces by shape.

Then I put down all the special shaped pieces and tried to puzzle with those on Image 18 and Image 21.

It got bad really fast!

Well, I knew I was going to find multiple pieces with the same shape.
But I kind of forgot how annoying that is!

It seems cool right, take all the pieces with the same shape, connect them and you work on different Images at the same time.
BUT...
Not all the pieces that I should connect are in the orange-black pile. Some might be in the "only Orange" pile or even worse, ..in the white and black pile that I will not see until almost finishing the whole puzzle!
So I try to connect as many pieces as I can but then I have loose pieces or pieces where clearly the Image isn\'t right.
I have 14 Images with dark orange. So in the worst case I could have 14 duplicates of one piece.

Tomorrow I think I will lay out all "normal" black-dark orange pieces.
The more pieces I can lay out the easier it is.

First orange piece down!

Yesterday I started with the light orange - black pieces.
It's an easy start since there aren't that many pieces and I have a big chunk of pink piece that connects to it.
 

So of course I sorted them by shape and...

Found the first connecting piece!

During the day I took out the full light orange pieces and pretty much had the backwards bending figure from Image 26 done in one day. 

And! I have a small piece of another image:

Today I don't have a lot of time, but I'll try to finish as much of the baby as possible.

Also I should have taken out the pieces with light orange out of the ones with a second color. 

It won't be a lot of them but I might need them here.