Puzzlewood 321pc The Owl & The Pussycat Complete (Pea-Green Boat)DSC08454

            Post Script: I took the two jigsaws of this series to the June 2022 meeting. 'Pea-Green Boat' was made up at the meeting (for the third time) and Wedding was the jewel in my show & tell. 

Sept 2020 2nd Virtual BCD Meeting Show & Tell
Beautifully crafted shaped & 3D-enhanced hand cut jigsaw by Heather Prydderch of Puzzlewood - 'Beautiful Pea-Green Boat' an illustration to Edward Lear's The Owl & The Pussycat by Owen Wood. The commission was the result of seeing a British Jigsaw Library jigsaw from the same book cut by Dick Sawbridge at a BCD meeting.

May 2020:
16.23, first completed photo taken. I did this over two sessions, and although I wasn't timing myself times of my photos show it took between 6 and 6.5hrs. You can follow my progress in the photos in 3 places:
- my photostream
- my two jigsaw albums - 3D-enhanced jigsaws and New Hand-Cuts

Heather Prydderch of Puzzlewood has done me proud with this beautifully crafted, shaped and 3D-enhanced wooden jigsaw. I was expecting a shaped outline, but not the different levels. The most amazing bits are the fine cutting around the whiskers of the cat, the mouse eyebrows of the ship's figurehead and the various ropes. Heather wisely sought to protect the cat's whiskers by setting them within a composite piece. It must have been incredibly fiddly and nerve-wracking work.

Owen Wood's illustrations are so beautiful, colourful, witty and charming. I was delighted with the book, which I ordered after seeing a British Jigsaw Library puzzle by him (The Wedding) brought to a BCD meeting. The book contains the illustrated story of the Owl and the Pussycat plus a series of Lear Limericks. Heather has commissions for more of the images (if she will give me her time and incredible talents - for she must have scores of other customers beating a virtual path to her door).

I've been writing an article for the BCD magazine about picking images that make the most of different cutting styles. This image has all the features that make the best Par jigsaws memorable. Bold lines, a witty subject, a natural outline with both unpredictable shaped and predictable straight outlines, opportunity for outserts (protrusions beyond an edge) and dropouts and a blank area where the cutter can exercise their imagination with shapes or slither-dropouts. This image has it all, and Heather has hit every one of them and pulled off some amazing 3D-enhanced work on top!

Genest Le Colimacon has cut me three limerick illustrations as Figure-It-Out style, push-fit flat jigsaws. The frame and background within which each one can sit is packaged separately. I'm looking for something for Terry and Howard.

I am so very  lucky to have such talented cutters as friends!
   

Taken on: May 8, 2020

Sets appears in: • Jun25 SEASIDE BCD Mtg • Shaped Hand-Cut Jigsaws more » • BCD Planes, Boats & Trains • BCD Mtg Stories Humour June 2022 • Puzzlewood Heather Prydderch • Splash of Colour 2021 • Virtual Meetings 2020 • modern hand cut jigsaws • 3D-enhanced Jigsaws « less

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