Artist: various
Maker and Year: Ceaco, 2022
Count: 1,000 pieces
Final size: 26.5 x 19″
Piece Type/Variety: Ribbon cut, average
Piece quality: Good
Skin irritation: Very mild
Last of the National Parks set. I thought I wouldn’t like this one so much, because of all the lettering! Fitting words together isn’t nearly as much fun to me as doing scenery or animals. But happily, I was wrong. It went much quicker than I had imagined, too. Due to continued puzzling hours at the library, I sorted most of it out the day before starting, by each poster or pennant. I knew I had mixed some up, because there’s sixteen individual pictures/pennants in the puzzle, and I only had fifteen sort piles. Yup. Found out soon enough that I’d put all the Arches pieces in with others: some of the reds ended up in the Big Bend pennant’s bag, and more of the paler background/lettering pieces were with the Acadia pennant pieces. It wasn’t too hard to separate them out once I paid closer attention.
So the progress went quick, each little segment. I did a half dozen the first sitting, and all the rest the second, bringing them home individually in my cardboard “sandwich” and assembling on the large board at home. It was very satisfying to “zip” all the pictures and pennants into their places for the final sitting, which was just filling in a few gaps I had missed, and the background wood texture. But had a camera malfunction and lost all the middle progress shots. The beginning:
and the end:
I liked best doing the ones that are posters, mostly scenery. I was surprised that so many parks are represented more than once on here: two things for Grand Teton, Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Big Bend and Joshua Tree. There’s so many national parks, I don’t know why more variety isn’t shown in the puzzle.
