Beautiful!
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I ran into an article in today’s Seattle Times which was originally published in The Washington Post, neither of which I can gift link. It’s about a couple in Minnesota that turned their basement into a massive jigsaw gallery. Headline is: You think you like puzzles? Wait until you see this house.
The basement of Linda Groskreutz’s home is covered with jigsaw puzzles, including one that has 40,320 pieces and and measures more than 22 feet across.
She spends about 20 hours a week piecing together her creations. Her trick is to start with the edges, then fill in the pieces by color. She advises anyone tackling a large puzzle to use a room with good lighting and sort pieces into groups based on their shapes.
So there you go! An expert’s advice.
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Can’t link to my local paper either, but this video was embedded in the article and illustrates the story:
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Follow up. I did it! No pieces missing, whew. Going to buy some puzzle glue today and give it a shot.
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I’m not a puzzle fan, but DH’s family is. I remember one Christmas when five of them were working on a spilled milk puzzle similar to this one, but 750 pieces:
Why?
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I would love one, but I bet I could find someone to make it for less than $1700! i know my friend’s husband could do it because he’s a great woodworker and makes all kinds of desks and tables for his grandchildren. Too bad I’m not his grandchild.
Another friend, with a woodworker husband, has a table just for puzzles. It is sort of an antique card table sized and it fits perfectly into a space under a window.
I was just looking at some puzzles today at the thrift store but resisted. I become obsessed and then don’t get other things done that I need to get done. But i do love doing puzzles.
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We downsized and no longer had space for a table dedicated to a puzzle, so we gave this a try and it’s worked surprisingly well. I’m not a big fan of doing puzzles on felt, so I might eventually try swapping it out for a smoother fabric (maybe something with a leathery texture, though I’m not very crafty and not sure what would work best). That said, we’ve completed several puzzles on the felt surface, and it’s worked just fine. It rolls up the puzzle without messing it up at all.
I see many are doing puzzles in the summer. We are winter puzzlers. One always comes out when the snow starts.
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I have a puzzle table, bought on Amazon for $70. It has 6 drawers and can be rotated.
Can you send a link to this? Please!
I have a felt roll up thing and I find it to be less than satisfactory!
Thank you! The transparent cover makes it a winner!
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I’m not even into puzzles but the organization of that table is really cool!
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I started this thread in the winter when I did my first puzzle in probably decades. I have another one going and can leave it out on the coffee table in our loft space but I’d consider that puzzle thingy above someday if I continue to do them.
Someone I follow on Instagram is a puzzler and she does this thing where when she finishes a puzzle she tries to pick it up by the top corners (she is standing behind it) and tries to hold it up while standing and hope that the puzzle stays together - has anyone tried this? Seems to work about a third of the time!
I think the ‘holding it up’ trick would work best on high quality puzzles (Ravensberger) that are ‘cut tight’ and interlock well. Some of the less expensive puzzles don’t lock, and I doubt you could get a decent square in the corner to lock.
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Oh sure I figured they were a quality puzzle and not an off brand at the dollar store!
Just finished a 1000 piece puzzle. My daughter comes over and borrows from my puzzle library on occasion to work on at her home. I can tell she borrowed this one because there is cat hair in the bottom of the box. 
Her cats are pretty good about not stealing the pieces, but apparently love to sit in the box.
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There is a lot of ground between a $30 puzzle and a dollar store one.
A cousin and I used to race to build puzzles (we did a lot that were the front page of the NY Times on important dates, like the sinking of the Titanic). We really could tell the difference in quality. (Before the days of Dollar Tree, but there were Woolworth’s type stores, and even those varied in quality.
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Sure there is. That was just an example. Didn’t mean to make a puzzle faux pas.
I’m just ordered the medium size one of these and it’s supposed to be here on Tuesday. I don’t do larger than 1000 piece puzzles and the ones I have here will easily fit into the medium sized one.
Thanks for this tip. It’s the clear plastic cover that makes the difference! Cat can’t get to the pieces!!
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