13200 Annunciation: Update #12, 120 hours.
Day 25. 120 hours total.
To me, the puzzling is over and has morphed into a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. It's just plugging in pieces, everything carefully arranged by shape on pieces of cardboard. I spend my time scanning through the columns and rows, occasionally trying a piece but usually just a lot of scanning until the correct piece is found. I build off a 'corner' spot where two sides of the connecting piece are known; this narrows down the possible piece shapes: the two adjacent sides could be either knob, knob; knob, hole; or hole, hole.
It's an incredibly boring process and to me, the antithesis of puzzling. There isn't any of the enjoyment of interacting with color, detail, texture and line; pairing up pieces independently and slowly watching pods build. Or the act of touching and moving pieces around, which in and of itself creates serendipitous connections.
But at this point, it is the most efficient way (short of using the pattern) to complete the rest of the puzzle.
To complete the stone work took 5 hrs., 50 mins. The remaining 4:10 has been spent on the shadow of the red dress, which is slow going so far (although, some of that time was spent sorting out deep-reds from deep-blues and then arranging pieces into formation).
Really ready to get this thing done with.
13200 Annunciation: Update #12, 120 hours.
Day 25. 120 hours total.
To me, the puzzling is over and has morphed into a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. It's just plugging in pieces, everything carefully arranged by shape on pieces of cardboard. I spend my time scanning through the columns and rows, occasionally trying a piece but usually just a lot of scanning until the correct piece is found. I build off a 'corner' spot where two sides of the connecting piece are known; this narrows down the possible piece shapes: the two adjacent sides could be either knob, knob; knob, hole; or hole, hole.
It's an incredibly boring process and to me, the antithesis of puzzling. There isn't any of the enjoyment of interacting with color, detail, texture and line; pairing up pieces independently and slowly watching pods build. Or the act of touching and moving pieces around, which in and of itself creates serendipitous connections.
But at this point, it is the most efficient way (short of using the pattern) to complete the rest of the puzzle.
To complete the stone work took 5 hrs., 50 mins. The remaining 4:10 has been spent on the shadow of the red dress, which is slow going so far (although, some of that time was spent sorting out deep-reds from deep-blues and then arranging pieces into formation).
Really ready to get this thing done with.