Frederick Bottom Shelf & Puzzles

 I know it has been a while since I showed an update on Frederick. I have been stitching at least once or twice a week, but don't always feel like photographing and updating my blog. 

I am working on the bottom shelf of books. I have run out of a few colours from the kit, but I went through my DMC floss and found something close enough to substitute instead of contacting Dimensions and ordering more floss.

Dave & I have worked on a few puzzles in the past month. We like to sit outside on the patio working on the puzzles.

This one is a 1000pc called the Beach Hut by Ravensburger. We enjoyed all the bright colours and beach theme.

This one doesn't have a name, but we loved the colours and it was very quick to build. It only took us 4 hours to complete.

This is the first time I have built a shape puzzle. I love tea, so I borrowed this one from my sisters. I thought it would be easy to assemble. Well I was wrong. I started it, then Dave helped me. I think it took about 4 days off and on to complete. I am happy to say we finished it, but I don't think I will go out of my way to do another one. It was one of the hardest puzzles I have completed. There are pieces that look like edges that are not.

This puzzle also had 13 hidden object pieces.

Cat & whale

I worked on Frederick a lot yesterday (afternoon & evening). Close up of Frederick’s butt and leg.

Here is the whole project.

Dave & I finally completed another 2000pc puzzle. This was also a Christmas gift from our youngest son Jordyn. 

This was the hardest puzzle we have done so far. It took us 3 weeks, but we didn’t work on it every day. 

It is a beautiful puzzle to look at from a distance.  

Up close it is a pain in the neck. There was so much blue and it looks like paint brush strokes, not clear detail.  

Ravensburger - John Deere puzzle

Last week we worked on our 3rd puzzle for this year. My husband grew up on a small family farm, so he loves building puzzles with farm scenes or tractors.  His family didn’t own a John Deere tractor, but they are very popular. This is our 2nd John Deere puzzle we have in our collection. 

I did lots of stitching over the weekend. I finished the fish, worked on 2 more books and last night I started Frederick’s head.

Puzzle and more books

This week finished our second puzzle for 2022. This one I chose because of the photo. It is called The Cozy Shed. It looks like a place I’d enjoy spending time in. It didn’t take long to build because this is only a 1000 pc Ravensburger puzzle. Not sure which puzzle we will build next.

I’m continuing to work on Frederick. I did the first book on the top and bottom shelves. Now I can see how tall it will be. I will continue to work on the books on the top shelf for now. When I don’t want to count I can continue stitching the top and bottom shelves.

Puzzle & Books

Last night we finished our first puzzle of the year.  My youngest son Jordyn and daughter-in-law Sarah bought us 2 Ravensburger 2000 piece puzzles. We completed one so far. It took us about a week, but we didn’t work on it every day. There is no name of the puzzle, but it does say Zoe Sadler on the side of the box. I’m guessing it is the artist who created the design.

This was the hardest puzzle we have ever built.  We started with the border as usual, then thought we would do the wood boxes/shelves around the items. That didn’t work, so we worked on the labels/tags on each bottle and then filled in the spaces around them to connect everything together. It was weird looking at the puzzle half way through with all of the gaps in between. We usually work in sections and feel like we are accomplishing something when we get an area completed. This one was a challenge from start to finish. I thought of the Harry Potter books and movies every time I read a label because they are magical potion ingredients.

I’m still working on the first book, but I did finish the title.