{"id":1347,"date":"2023-07-09T01:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T01:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2024-12-05T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:19:29","slug":"soaring-to-new-heights-stave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2023\/07\/09\/soaring-to-new-heights-stave\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring to New Heights – Stave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first Stave! courtesy of the Hoefnagle Club<\/a>. “Soaring to New Heights<\/a>” (2023, 145 pieces, 4 swords Teaser). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Stave lives up to their reputation. Really challenging! I used a reference image of the solved puzzle to help me out whenever I was super stuck. The reference images … were not perfect matches with my puzzle. Because there are slightly different ways to solve? Or different photo quality? Or individual puzzles? Not sure. But, it was definitely helpful, while I started to figure out how to look at the different kinds of puzzle pieces. Looking forward to a different (easier) Stave to start putting these lessons into practice, without a reference image! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes there were several possible fits, with one being “better” rather than obviously it. … I really appreciated the simple body, which is smart puzzle design — give the puzzler something to succeed at, to get them hooked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pieces felt really nice in the hand, and I could see the hand-cutting. This puzzle — at $1100+ — would have been way beyond any conceivable budget I could come up with for puzzles, but, yeah, I get it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first Stave! courtesy of the Hoefnagle Club. “Soaring to New Heights” (2023, 145 pieces, 4 swords Teaser). Well, Stave lives up to their reputation. Really challenging! I used a reference image of the solved puzzle to help me out whenever I was super stuck. The reference images … were not perfect matches with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,613],"tags":[],"artists":[],"puzzling":[200,226],"makers":[229],"features":[391,356,8],"subjects":[230,231],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-completed","category-wooden-handcut","puzzling-hoefnagel-puzzle-club","puzzling-zeniba-the-cat","makers-stave-puzzles","features-hand-cut","features-snuggle-pieces","features-wooden","subjects-dragonflies","subjects-flowers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PXL_20230708_232645466-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"puzzling","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzling?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"makers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/makers?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"features","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subjects?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}