Jigsaws really become addictive once you start. I don't really do them now, don't really have anywhere to do them. If I start and don't finish then I end up having to dismantle to put away. They are great for taking up your concentration completely so you don't feel on anything unhelpful.
My Mum-in-law always has some in stock & I agree as they completely take all of my attention. I know what you mean though about having somewhere to do them. I normally sit on the floor & then we're lucky that the partially completed one slides under our sofa. I started doing that back when we had a cat, as otherwise she'd knock pieces on the floor!
I was bought a plastic sheet with an inflatable tube the same as the height of the sheet in portrait. You put the tube on one end of the plastic sheet with the partly done jigsaw on ths sheet. Then you carefullly roll the tube to the other side with the sheet held against the tube. When you get to the other side it is held in place in a way I cannot remember. The idea is you can then store it away somewhere until you can get back to it when you roll it back out and it is still as complete as the last time you worked on it.
It sounds a good thing but I never got to use it. You see I only got into jigsaws with my son. he got into them then people got harder ones and he got bored (he was 4 or 5yo). So I often did then while he watched or just went off. That was why my partner got it. She saw how I became obsessed with finishing jigsaws once started but she wanted me to leave it alone so bought this to enable it I reckon. No chance I get hyperfocus and obsessive about them.
MY son was also bought a lego like castle from a non lego brand for his birthday. A rather big non-lego model. Unlike Lego that has numbered bags and manuals to make it. This had a way too simple manual and everything was mixed in 5 or 6 not numbered bags. There was no logic to how they were packed so you had to lay them out on the table and sort hard through them. It became easier as I progressed but it took a very long week or two. As I got nearer the end I got too obsessive and it was often I worked into 3 or 4 am then up at half past 6 to go to work. I did that for 3 days at the end and it nearly wiped me out on the half day friday when I slept most of the afternoon.
For me lego style models are kind of like 3D jigsaws and give me the same kind of satidfaction and obsession. I must think about getting a good one sometime.
I understand that Paul. I had a period of time where I became obsessed with Civilisation, the PC game. My husband and I played together and would spend all evening into the early hours playing. Getting up for work was killing me!! If either of us gets a bit obsessed with doing something we joke ‘one more turn’ because that was what that game was like.
Jigsaws really become addictive once you start. I don't really do them now, don't really have anywhere to do them. If I start and don't finish then I end up having to dismantle to put away. They are great for taking up your concentration completely so you don't feel on anything unhelpful.
ReplyDeleteYou could specialize in Micro puzzles. These have a little less or up to 1cm grid, so you can have 204-234pc on 15x10cm, or 1000pc on 38x26cm.
DeleteThe smallest "Nanopuzzle" have 99 wooden pieces on 66x56mm, but these are less interesting.
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My Mum-in-law always has some in stock & I agree as they completely take all of my attention. I know what you mean though about having somewhere to do them. I normally sit on the floor & then we're lucky that the partially completed one slides under our sofa. I started doing that back when we had a cat, as otherwise she'd knock pieces on the floor!
DeleteI was bought a plastic sheet with an inflatable tube the same as the height of the sheet in portrait. You put the tube on one end of the plastic sheet with the partly done jigsaw on ths sheet. Then you carefullly roll the tube to the other side with the sheet held against the tube. When you get to the other side it is held in place in a way I cannot remember. The idea is you can then store it away somewhere until you can get back to it when you roll it back out and it is still as complete as the last time you worked on it.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds a good thing but I never got to use it. You see I only got into jigsaws with my son. he got into them then people got harder ones and he got bored (he was 4 or 5yo). So I often did then while he watched or just went off. That was why my partner got it. She saw how I became obsessed with finishing jigsaws once started but she wanted me to leave it alone so bought this to enable it I reckon. No chance I get hyperfocus and obsessive about them.
MY son was also bought a lego like castle from a non lego brand for his birthday. A rather big non-lego model. Unlike Lego that has numbered bags and manuals to make it. This had a way too simple manual and everything was mixed in 5 or 6 not numbered bags. There was no logic to how they were packed so you had to lay them out on the table and sort hard through them. It became easier as I progressed but it took a very long week or two. As I got nearer the end I got too obsessive and it was often I worked into 3 or 4 am then up at half past 6 to go to work. I did that for 3 days at the end and it nearly wiped me out on the half day friday when I slept most of the afternoon.
For me lego style models are kind of like 3D jigsaws and give me the same kind of satidfaction and obsession. I must think about getting a good one sometime.
I understand that Paul. I had a period of time where I became obsessed with Civilisation, the PC game. My husband and I played together and would spend all evening into the early hours playing. Getting up for work was killing me!! If either of us gets a bit obsessed with doing something we joke ‘one more turn’ because that was what that game was like.
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