The second puzzle Dale and I put together in January is called All Good Things are Wild & Free. It's a quotation from Henry David Thoreau's essay, Walking. There's a lot to like about this puzzle.
It's manufactured by Flow, an international brand that celebrates mindfulness, creativity, and the simple pleasures in life. The illustration is by Dutch artist Valesca van Waveren.
The little camping and bug vignettes are sweet.
But one thing about puzzles made by smaller companies is that their quality can be lower than the standards of more established puzzle makers. Here, the cardboard is nice and solid, so the pieces feel good in your hand. But the quality falls apart a bit on the cut.
There are a lot of false fits ... meaning that pieces that are not meant to go together do go together "almost." But they don't come apart very easily. So the tabs get stuck and no matter how gentle we tried to be, they twisted, so the plies of cardboard pull apart. Unfortunately, by the time we found where the pieces do fit together correctly, the pieces became lumpy and bumpy. Note the few examples below.
For that reason, I doubt I'll put this puzzle together again. It's a shame because I do so like the image.
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