Making your Dash Count

My newest challenge December 30, 2012

The most advanced puzzle strategy that I’ve ever developed included separating edge pieces and then sorting by color. I have never been one for “impossible” jigsaws: the white ones, the two sided ones or the puzzle of an amassed million blue tulips. I’ve always enjoyed the doable challenges- 500 piece maps of New Jersey, 1000 piece puzzles with discernible scenes. So when my daughter gave me a the 1000 piece puzzle pictured below, I gulped my thank you. There are about 400 cats. That is fewer than three pieces per cat. A challenge, indeed, that started with the initial sort.

“Jive Cats” by Kathy Weller