I bought two jigsaws from a charity shop before the lock-down. The doll’s house jigsaw that we recently completed and a cat jigsaw.
In the meantime some friends that we met at a classic car show last year have kept in touch by e-mail and we have been exchanging photos. They do jigsaws too and said they would leave some on our drive. We left our classic car jigsaw on our drive for them to take in exchange.
We were surprised to see that they left us four jigsaws. They are all really busy scenes with loads of detail so should be fun to do. I thought that we should do the cat jigsaw first though as I could see that was going to be a tricky one.
It was probably the hardest jigsaw that I have ever done. My husband found it too difficult and joined in only now and again. He did sort out all the eyes on to a tray but soon got fed up of all the eyes staring up at him.
After completing the outside edge and a few of the easier, bigger, parts I actually felt like giving up as I just didn’t seem able to get anywhere with it. I absolutely hate to give up on anything though so I got to the point where I thought that having completed a bit more I just couldn’t let it beat me.
It was painstaking and I would find just a few pieces at a time. When it got almost to the end my husband joined in again and we finished it together. Hurrah!
There was one bit missing, on the yellow cat, half way down on the right hand side.
We are so pleased that this jigsaw is finished, apart from the one missing bit, and we can now start a more enjoyable one.
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That do look like a very hard jigsaw.I thought the one you gave me was hard, I do not think i could do yours. my eyesight is not that good.I have one to start, it is all the things in a shed, lots of little things to pick out.
I won’t be sending you that one then. I found it much much harder than the one I sent you. Richard didn’t like it at all and even I felt like giving up at one point. Richard struggles with the colours being colour blind. Sometimes I see him trying a bit the right shape but the wrong colour and I tell him that is definitely not going to work! Your next one sounds interesting. I have just started another one called “The Great British BBQ”. Lots of humour and very busy.