Jigsaw Puzzle Finishes 2025

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Completed puzzles are donated to local library for their patrons that like to do jigsaw puzzles. An area in the library has been set up for them to work on the puzzles. If the library doesn't want them, I gift to others that enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles.

The Old Book Shop Cats

CraZArt 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 07/13/24

Completed 03/30/25

Salzburg, Austria

Vintage Jaymar 200 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 03/31/25

Completed 03/31/25

Catology - Savannah

Master Pieces 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 03/31/25

Completed 04/06/25

Sunset at the Farm

Buffalo Games 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 04/06/25

Completed 04/13/25

Americana - School Days

Master Pieces 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 04/14/25

Completed 04/15/25  

Bluebirds and Hollyhocks

Cobble Hill 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 04/16/25

Completed 04/25/25

Grandma's Quilts

SunsOut 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 04/25/25

Completed 04/26/25

A Quick Sniff

SunsOut 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 04/27/25

Abandoned Due to Piece Coloring, Image Not Well Defined, Poor Quality

Doing Our Chores

SunsOut 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 05/03/25

Abandoned Due to Piece Coloring and Shape, Image Not Well Defined, Poor Quality, Many Pieces Still Attached Not Cut

Friendly Persuasion 

SunsOut 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 05/03/25

Abandoned Due to Piece Coloring and Shape, Image Not Well Defined, Poor Quality

Country Paradise

Cobble Hill 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 05/05/25

Completed 05/06/25

Quilts For Sale

SunsOut 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 05/09/25

Completed 05/14/25

Watching the Trains

SunsOut 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 05/15/25

Completed 05/20/25

Quilts in the Backyard

SunsOut 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 05/20/25

Completed 05/20/25

Village Shops

SunsOut 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 05/21/25

Thrown Out 05/21/25

Abandoned and tossed in garbage. Many pieces were smaller than half the size of a dime. Many pieces were still attached in original packaging-not cut apart. Struggled to keep pieces together when attempting to put puzzle together-wouldn't stay together. Not worth the hassle or my time.

I have six SunsOut jigsaw puzzles left in my jigsaw puzzle stash. Completing them will depend on what I encounter when I open the box. Future purchases of this brand will be done only after long thought!! That's sad as SunsOut puzzle designs are fun ones (due in part to oddly shaped puzzle pieces and overall design or image) to consider and put together.

Granny's Sewing Room

Falcon de Luxe 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 05/24/25

Completed 05/25/25

Office Hours

Buffalo Games and Puzzles 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Sorted Pieces 05/26/25 

Started Putting Together and Completed After Getting Jigsaw Puzzle Easel/Table Assembled on May 30th, Completed 05/30/25

Bountiful Harvest

Buffalo Games and Puzzles 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 06/01/25

Completed 06/09/25

In Memory of my Dad (1939-2013) Who Was Born and Raised on a Farm. Loved the Farming Way of Life. Had a Farmer's Heart.

Next Up...

Harvest Cafe

Bits and Pieces 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started

Completed

Jigsaw Puzzle Finishes 2024

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Gathering in the Farm Yard

SunsOut 300 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 06/11/24

Completed 06/12/24

The Bluebird's Song

Buffalo 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 06/13/24

Completed 06/26/24.

Barnyard Chickens

SunsOut 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 06/26/24

Finished 06/27/24

Fresh Eggs And More

Bits and Pieces 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 06/28/24

Completed 07/04/24

Naughty Kittens

Bits and Pieces 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 07/07/24

Finished 07/10/24

Finished Naughty Kittens. Was a fun one to do.  Each time I saw the kitten climbing the drape I would smile.  Mama cat asleep on the chair, knitting unraveling, yarn balls going everywhere and kittens having fun.  The pieces were good sized and the unique shape of each piece made it a quick put together. I would share a picture of the finish if it was available. I took the puzzle apart and got it ready to take to the library.  Went over and sat down in my stitching chair and realized I didn't take a picture of the finish before breaking the puzzle down. I take pictures of puzzle finishes so I can remember which ones I've done so I don't duplicate purchases.

The Old Book Shop Cats

CraZArt 1,000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Started 07/13/24

Completed in 2025

Current Hand Stitched WIPs

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Current handstitched projects being worked on. 

Cross Stitch WIPs

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Stoney Creek Collection Magazine 2021 Issues, Leaflet 544

28ct Light Gray Ash Lugana, DMC and Threadworx Threads, Embellishments

Stitching 2 over 2

Started 12/29/24

Number of Days Worked on So Far - 23

Goal to Finish - End of Year 2025

Top section done.

Progress as of 05/23/25.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 Verses 1 and 2  are completed.

Working on page 4 of 14 pages.

Future starts...

I've wanted to do a Linda Myers and Paula Vaughan design. 

Quilt Show by Linda Myers.

The wedgewood blue 28ct evenweave fabric I ordered arrived in the mail. Just need to pull the threads and prep the fabric. 

Sunflower Romance by Paula Vaughan. Blends my love of the old west and settling of the prairie with my favorite color of yellow and flower - the sunflower. The pale yellow 28ct evenweave fabric I ordered arrived in the mail. Just need to pull the threads and prep the fabric.

The above design is from this book.

Will also be doing another Paula Vaughan design.  Iowa's state flower is the wild rose.  The pale pink 28ct evenweave fabric I ordered arrived in the mail. Just need to pull threads and prep the fabric. Will be stitching the design using both light and dark roses.

I collect ceramic schoolhouses.

I would like to start this one. I will change out the 14ct white aida for either a white or ivory 28ct evenweave.

Lastly, would like to stitch this design. I had started this one several years ago and had much of the upper left-hand corner diagonally stitched.  

I was able to find a replacement and ordered it. I cut the chart's picture and the particulars to fit into my project bag. 

I will switch out the fabric for a 28ct wedgewood blue evenweave fabric. Do not like the texture of the fabric that came with the kit. It's too coarse and I don't like the shade of blue.

Embroidery WIPs

Am not currently working on an embroidery project.

Current Machine Sewn WIPs

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Current machine sewn projects being worked on or have been started but are now in the wings waiting to be worked on.

All of the blocks for this quilt top have been embroidered. I just need to wash, press and square up the blocks and then sew the quilt top together. I plan to sash between the blocks, use cornerstones and sew on solid fabric borders. Will be long arm quilted.   

With this quilting project, I have a confession to make.  I put this one away because I got hung up on fabric for the petals.  I've never done a EPP project before.  I saw a completed Grandma's Flower Garden quilt and wanted to do one.  I had a quilt shop owner show me how to do one petal and then attach the petal to another petal.  I bought a package of hexagon shaped papers and the rest is history.  With the fabric, I am using scrap fabric from making quilts and 18" doll clothes.  I wanted a snippet of my former projects with this quilt.  Well, I've had a log jam with my thinking and am unable to move forward and do the petals or the EPP because I have quilts projects I have yet to do knowing I will have scrap fabric from those projects.  Odd thinking I know.  That's how my brain works.  I eventually had a light bulb moment when I made the decision to use scraps I have currently and future scrappy quilts will showcase or display the fabrics that wouldn't be in this Grandma's Flower Garden quilt.  Having "seen the light" with that thought, I still have to decide on how I want to do each ring of the flower - matching like fabric or scrappy as in a different fabric for each petal of each ring in the flower.  Then I have to decide how exactly I want to do the rings of the flowers - one round or ring of all solid and then all print or one round or ring of all print and then all solid?  Then I have to decide what color of fabric to use for the border for around each flower?   So for now I just make the EPP petals and flowers. With this project, I asked a dear friend for some of her fabric scraps as I wanted to have some of her fabrics in my quilt.  She's a quilter too.  Those scraps of fabric will be used for this quilt, my Sunbonnet Sue applique blocks, my FPP Hearts and the FPP Scrap HSTs blocks. Will say this here.  I like working with scraps.  I have watched youtube videos where other quilters do crumb quilts.  I want to make a crumb quilt.  I have bought bags of scrap fabric from an etsy shop owner.  With my quilting fabric, it's like my cross stitch inventory or stash.  I have ... well, let's just say I have enough fabric to make more than a few quilts. 

 

This was my first ever attempt at applique. It's a Sunbonnet Sue and my first and only block for a Sunbonnet Sue quilt top.  I've since learned better techniques doing the Tiny Trio banners.  I still want to make a Sunbonnet Sue quilt. 

Need to finish up these 18" doll dresses.  Plan to use KAM snaps instead of buttons or velcro for the back closure.  Used the fabric given to me for making the doll garments. 

McCalls Sewing Pattern 3275

Cobbled pattern pieces from McCall's Sewing Pattern 3275 for the bodice front, back and sleeves and Simplicity Sewing Pattern 2768 for the skirt.

Cotton fabric, elastic, serged seams where able to. 

Cobbled pattern pieces from McCall's Sewing Pattern 3275 for the bodice front, back and sleeves and Simplicity Sewing Pattern 2768 for the skirt. Cotton fabric, elastic, serged seams where able to. 

Two dresses on the left - Avery Lane Designs Pattern. Two dresses on the right - Simplicity 2768 Sewing Pattern 

Bodice part of dresses are from McCall's 3275 and skirt is from Simplicity 2768. Shorter sleeve and skirt lengths. 

Kaleidoscope Quilt

Purchased precut quilt kits using '30's fabrics from an etsy shop. Followed directions per written pattern that came with the kit. Not happy with results. Did a youtube video search and found directions by Carol Thelen. Explained well. Shared a better technique.  Like the results much better. First 2 of 90 8-1/2" square blocks completed. 

Won't be sashing between blocks or rows. Will be long arm quilted. 

Started 04/2025.