DONE!

July 5th 2014 - September 13th 2020: IT IS DONE!

After some moving of borders I got really frustrated with the cutlines, so 

I decided do puzzle the last lines on the floor, so I spread all the images out. 

The cutlines are so frustrating, pieces don't fit nicely and I 

wanted to be done with this puzzle, so I shoved some of them in with force.

Since I am missing 2 pieces and no place to put the whole image I decided 

I will just dump the puzzle in the recycling. 

So here ends this adventure. It took me 6 years and 2 months to finish this puzzle. I gave myself 10 years, so I am well within that timeframe. 

For now I'm done puzzling for a while and I don't think I will make bigger puzzles. 

Even though they do exist. 

I'll happily make some 1000 - 5000 piece puzzles, but not more :)

Daunting White!

 I really wished the puzzle was done, and I'm not looking forward to all that white!

I'll try the same approach as with the black and white pieces. At least I do not need anything to line up and hopefully all the white is similar enough to be interchangeable. 

I also took all the border pieces and those were pretty easy to figure out where they needed to be placed. 

So today (September 9th 2020 I finished putting all of the border pieces down!

The problem area are the 2 fully white lines between images. Those are cut lines and pieces tend to not always fit nicely, even if you have the correct pieces. On top of that there are 28 similar pieces and they are not 100% identical and not always interchangeable. It makes the proces of deciding which piece of the 28th to use difficult.