{"title":"Puzzle Artist: Jill Barklem","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"brambly-hedge-autumn-story-1000-piece-jigsaw-puzzle-poster-cobble-hill","title":"Brambly Hedge Autumn Story 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle + Poster (Cobble Hill)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlackberries, elderberries and rosehips fill every corner of this collage, gathered from Jill Barklem's Brambly Hedge books. Mice in tiny bonnets and waistcoats climb through the hedgerow, tuck into store cupboards stacked with jam, and huddle by lantern light as the nights draw in. Each little vignette is lifted straight from the pages of Autumn Story, so fans of the books will spot familiar moments dotted throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a fiddly one to build. The hedge itself is a tangle of leaves, berries and twigs in similar autumn tones, so you'll want good light and a bit of patience for those sections, while the smaller framed scenes around the edge give you an easier way in. A full-size poster comes in the box for reference, which helps no end when you're trying to work out which mouse belongs where.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA nice choice for a quiet autumn afternoon, and one that would sit well framed afterwards given how much detail is packed into the artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobble Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57096617034106,"sku":"40017","price":15.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/5756\/1826\/files\/91rGa_cNg3L._AC_SL1500.jpg?v=1784721018"},{"product_id":"brambly-hedge-picnic-preparations-by-jill-barklem-500-piece-jigsaw-puzzle-poster-cobble-hill","title":"Brambly Hedge Picnic Preparations by Jill Barklem - 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle + Poster (Cobble Hill)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery shelf in this kitchen is doing double duty as a puzzle challenge. Teapots, jam jars, storybooks and a whole dresser of mismatched china are stacked from floor to ceiling, while the mice below get on with buttering bread and packing a hamper for their picnic. There's a cake half-iced on the table, a kettle on the stove, and a rabbit peering in through the doorway to see what's going on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Barklem's illustration is full of the small, fussy detail that makes Brambly Hedge so well loved — carved wooden beams, patterned curtains, rows of tiny jars all slightly different from one another. It's a good one for anyone who enjoys sorting by pattern rather than colour, since so much of the picture is that soft, buttery cottage palette throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe set comes with a poster of the full image, handy for checking where a piece belongs when the shelves start to blur together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobble Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57096620245370,"sku":"45107","price":14.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/5756\/1826\/files\/3567925b2b35a09022d2384fc231880b74df78289d82e18147fdf7def6665234.webp?v=1784721098"},{"product_id":"brambly-hedge-spring-story-by-jill-barklem-1000-piece-jigsaw-puzzle-poster-cobble-hill","title":"Brambly Hedge Spring Story by Jill Barklem - 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle + Poster (Cobble Hill)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe centre of this one is a hollow tree sliced open to show every room inside, from the store cupboard at the roots up to the attic under the blossom. Around it sits a patchwork of smaller scenes: mice setting a table for cake, a larder stacked with jars and baskets, a wheelbarrow being pushed along a hedgerow path, and a stream lined with tiny picnic blankets. Each panel comes with a snippet of text from the story, so you're piecing together the book as much as the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mice of Brambly Hedge live a self-sufficient life of milling, weaving and preserving, and Jill Barklem painted all of it in soft watercolour, tucked away in the English countryside. This Spring Story edition pulls together some of the best-loved images from the book into one busy collage, so there's plenty to sort by colour and by scene once you start.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poster is included to help keep track of which cottage room or garden corner you're working on. Good one for a Brambly Hedge fan, or anyone who likes a puzzle with lots of small self-contained scenes rather than one single sweeping view.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobble Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57096623096186,"sku":"40015","price":15.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/5756\/1826\/files\/91EL78MQacL._AC_SL1500.jpg?v=1784721224"},{"product_id":"brambly-hedge-winter-story-1000-piece-jigsaw-puzzle-by-jill-barklem-cobble-hill","title":"Brambly Hedge Winter Story 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle by Jill Barklem (Cobble Hill)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe centre panel is the giveaway of a good winter's night: a hollow oak lit from within, snow falling past its windows while the mice tuck into supper by candlelight. Around it, a dozen smaller scenes fill the box lid, from a snowman in the kitchen garden to skaters gliding along a frozen stream and a mouse hauling holly through the drifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a collage puzzle, so rather than one big picture you're really building twelve or so, each with its own palette and its own little story. That makes the sorting more interesting than a single scene would, though the deep blues of the night sky and the snow-covered thatch will take some patience to untangle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Barklem's illustrations are as detailed as ever, right down to the acorn-cup crockery and ivy round the doorframes, so this one rewards good light and maybe a magnifying glass for the fiddly bits. The poster included makes checking your progress against the original artwork much easier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobble Hill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57096626602362,"sku":"40018","price":15.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/5756\/1826\/files\/71cyWHJCf3L._AC_SL1000.jpg?v=1784721300"},{"product_id":"brambly-hedge-summer-story-1000-piece-jigsaw-puzzle-cobble-hill","title":"Brambly Hedge Summer Story – 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle (Cobble Hill)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJill Barklem’s Brambly Hedge in high summer — the mouse village’s wedding told across the picture, from the watermill and reed-bed to the striped picnic tents by the river. The little mice bustle through a hedgerow world drawn in her fine, gentle line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlenty of small figures and leafy detail, though the separate scenes give you somewhere to start. 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