Keepin' the Piece

This beauty was our first puzzle from Jigsaw Nation! The colors in this were absolutely gorgeous. Just look at that sky! Definitely a tricky image with all the color repetition, but there was good piece variety and plenty of helpful texture clues. It was quite an enjoyable one! 🧩 Title: Mystery Bird 🧩 Brand: @jigsawnationdotcom 🧩 Artist: @chaaya23 🧩 Pieces: 1000 🧩 Board: @zakcopuzzleboards #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #jigsawnation #clubzakco #zakcopuzzleboards 🧩 2023 Puzzle Tally 🧩 Completed Puzzles: 149 Assembled Pieces: 68,053

A gorgeous puzzle we did a while ago! I'm always a huge fan of quilt puzzles; I just love putting together all the different patterns! This one was especially neat because of the historical significance of it, which was explained on the back of the box. I loved that each quilt image included both the name of the original quiltmaker and the date it was made. It was amazing to see just how long this practice has been kept alive! 🧩 Title: The Quilts of Gee's Bend 🧩 Brand: @galisonpuzzles 🧩 Artist: @geesbendquiltmakers 🧩 Pieces: 1000 🧩 Board: @zakcopuzzleboards #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #galisonpuzzles #clubzakco #zakcopuzzleboards 🧩 2023 Puzzle Tally 🧩 Completed Puzzles: 90 Assembled Pieces: 44,134

September's Trevell subscription minis with the loveliest fall vibes! 🧩 Title: Mon Jardin Secret | Autumn Dog Walk | Forest Cat | Autumn by the Sea 🧩 Brand: @la.box.trevell @trevell.puzzle 🧩 Artist: @la_jeanette_ | @meganshumwayillustration | @vaughn_designs | @laivi_illustration 🧩 Pieces: 99 #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #trevell #trevellpuzzle #laboxtrevell

A gorgeous selection of minis! 🧩 Title: Lion | The Tale of a Tree | Autumn Rain 🧩 Brand: @puzzlemagnolia 🧩 Artist: Marcin Moderski | @nihal_tecimen_cifter | @davidmartiashvili 🧩 Pieces: 99 🧩 Board: @zakcopuzzleboards #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #magnoliapuzzle #clubzakco #zakcopuzzleboards #zakcosonzakcos 🧩 2024 Puzzle Tally 🧩 Completed Puzzles: 476 + 532 + 533 Assembled Pieces: 207,132

A lovely autumnal puzzle! This was just so cute and full of fun details and patterns. So enjoyable to put together! 🧩 Title: Marché D'Automne 🧩 Brand: @les.editions.heol 🧩 Artist: @marionbrouillon 🧩 Pieces: 1000 🧩 Purchased from: @rosewillieshop #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #leseditionsheol #rosewillie #rosewillieshop

This was a super fun and quick one! We loved puzzling the fall vibes of this collage. Obviously, our favorite square was the squirrel! 🐿️ 🧩 Title: Fall Grid 🧩 Brand + Artist: 1canoe2 🧩 Pieces: 1000 🧩 Purchased from: @puzzle.weekend #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #1canoe2 #puzzleweekend

Did this one last month for #Eschember! We’ve had this puzzle for so long that I don’t have a single clue where it came from. All I know is that I’ve been avoiding it since I rediscovered it a few years ago 😂 Luckily Eschember finally gave me the push to give it a go! Despite my initial hesitations, I ended up quite enjoying this one. While it certainly wasn’t easy, there was still quite a bit of information to go on with all the different textures and details. I only resorted to a shape sort at the very end when I was left with all the dark pieces. Such a satisfying challenge! Shoutout to @marilovespuzzles and @nerd_puzzle for helping me get through the last ~100 pieces just a few hours before the end of the month! 🧩 Title: Concave and Convex 🧩 Brand: @pomegranatecomm 🧩 Artist: M.C. Escher 🧩 Pieces: 1000 🧩 Board: @zakcopuzzleboards #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #pomegranatepuzzle #escher #clubzakco #zakcopuzzleboards

Let's pretend it didn't take me until December to post my last Halloween puzzles. At least I *think* these are the last ones. They were so cute! I absolutely loved the colors in Stained Glass Cat. 😍 🧩 Titles: Spooky Treats | Stained Glass Cat 🧩 Brand: @micropuzzles 🧩 Artist: unknown 🧩 Pieces: 150 #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #micropuzzles

**Spoilery pics ahead!** Yesterday I was trying to find a puzzle with turkeys to post for Thanksgiving and couldn't think of one... and then today I decided to post the top puzzle from our backlog and literally the first puzzle on the list features turkeys prominently. 🤦🏻‍♀️ This was our first puzzle from Different Puzzles! We were quite delighted by these silly partying chickens and other fowl friends. As with most puzzles we've done where the final image is different than the box, there were way less changes than expected. We really had to take some time to compare the two to find them! The piece quality was great: they fit well, had plenty of variety, and had a nice matte finish. We'll definitely have to try more puzzles from this brand! 🐓🦃 🧩 Title: Party Fowls 🧩 Brand: @differentpuzzles 🧩 Artist: unknown 🧩 Pieces: 1000 🧩 Board: @zakcopuzzleboards #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #differentpuzzles #clubzakco #zakcopuzzleboards 🧩 2023 Puzzle Tally 🧩 Completed Puzzles: 57 Assembled Pieces: 29,552

This evening we went to a fun local speed puzzling competition hosted by @henrybearspark! We don’t often get to pair together in competitions, so it was an absolute blast getting to do this one. To our surprise, the puzzle turned out to be Evening Sushi from last year’s Nationals. While neither of us got this puzzle in our own prelim round, we of course have each given it a run since then, and in fact Sammy tried it for the first time just last week! 😅 We got a moment to look at the puzzle before starting, so quickly came up with our strategy. This isn’t the easiest puzzle to do as a pair! We started off with the border, leaving the dark pieces of the bottom edge when we slowed down, but then worked on the green half of the puzzle. After that we tackled the sushi platter, going by texture/color and filling in the lines of the bowls to gain some structure. We finished with a time of 0:30:42 and came in 1st place! We received some cute medals, an @eeboopieceandlove puzzle, and a very generous gift card as a prize, which we of course used to buy more puzzles, as well as some silly toys. Huge thank you to Henry Bear for hosting!! Shoutout to @nerd_puzzle for getting the great action shot! 🧩 Title: Evening Sushi 🧩 Brand: @ravensburgerglobal 🧩 Pieces: 500 #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #ravensburger #speedpuzzling

Such a challenging art style to puzzle, especially on such tiny pieces! 🧩 Title: Light Up New York 🧩 Brand: @micropuzzles 🧩 Artist: @vizartink 🧩 Pieces: 150 #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #micropuzzles 🧩 2023 Puzzle Tally 🧩 Completed Puzzles: 330 Assembled Pieces: 152,809

A lovely Hoofschnaffel rental puzzle! This abstract fall scene was such a joy to put together. Mandy Budan's art is just so gorgeous and full of vibrancy! As always, the intricate cut from Stumpcraft was full of fun whimsies and whim-whams that perfectly complemented the illustration. It was a true pleasure to puzzle! 🧩 Title: Falling 🧩 Brand: @stumpcraft 🧩 Artist: @budanart 🧩 Pieces: 460 🧩 Loaned from: @woodenpuzzleclub #puzzle #puzzles #jigsawpuzzle #jigsaw #puzzlesofinstagram #stumpcraftpuzzles #woodenpuzzle #hoefnagelpuzzleclub 🧩 2023 Puzzle Tally 🧩 Completed Puzzles: 208 Assembled Pieces: 91,890