This puzzle was hard! Probably not great that I jumped straight from doing some easy ones, into a 1,000 piece count again, but I had promised this one to someone in a swap and wanted to finish it soon. Difficult because of all the tiny little things I had to peer constantly at the box image (no poster) to figure out where they went. Not my favorite way to do a puzzle. It had good sturdy pieces with nice surface texture, and a standard piece cut. The first few stages were hardest- it took me two sittings just to get the border done- because very little to go by except piece shape, and that was very subtle (small knobs, small variations). In assembling all the beetles, it wasn’t until the very last two sittings that it felt like the enjoyable “puzzle zone” where I could just look at what I had on the table and fit pieces in, instead of constantly referring back and forth to the reference image. Felt very satisfied to be done, but it’s not one I’d want to repeat! Although I do have another version of this, a second bug puzzle by the same make and artist. I will probably not do that one for a long while.
I was going to take closeup pictures of some individual beetles in the puzzle- they have really brilliant colors and some remarkable patterns. But I forgot to do so before breaking it all apart again. I’ll try to remember when I assemble the other beetle one.
Finished size 19 x 26″.
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It’s a beautiful puzzle, but it does look really hard!