HOW TO DO A JIGSAW PUZZLE QUICKLY

Today I'm showing you how to do a jigsaw puzzle. Subscribe for new jigsaw puzzle videos every week!

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[KarenPuzzles]

This video is full of all of my tips and tricks on how to do a jigsaw puzzle quickly! Do you have any additional tips that you use?

If you're wondering why I keep talking about Christmas, I originally uploaded this on my other channel in December 2017, but I decided to move it over here when I started this channel just for jigsaw puzzles!

[alexblaze]

A jigsaw horror story...

About 10 years ago my kids and I started a 5000 piece puzzle on our formal dining room table. I was active duty AF at the time and didn’t have a lot of time each day to work on it but slowly over the course of about 8 weeks, we were 90% done. I was sitting in my living room watching TV with the kids when out of the corner of my eye I saw my Chihuahua jump up onto a chair and onto the table, grab a piece and run off with it. The puzzle had been sitting out on the table for 2 months at this point unprotected and I had no idea the dog (my girlfriend’s dog) was capable of getting onto the table. All I could think about in that one horrific second it took me to leap off the couch and give chase was “that cannot be the first time he’s done that over the past two months...I could not have gotten that lucky to catch him doing it the very first time”. He spent hours a day at home roaming free with the puzzle just sitting there in various stages of completion.

I tracked him down and got the soggy piece out of his mouth, placed it on a paper towel and then inside the pages of a heavy book to dry out the piece and flatten it out again. And then I anxiously spent the next week finishing the puzzle. I just knew there had to be more pieces missing but surprisingly every last one was there. I got so lucky to have caught him doing it the very first time he did it.

[earlyflight]

I've been working on a 1000 pieces puzzle for over 24 hours and kinda feeling frustrated, but hearing you said ''It's gonna look the same whether you did it really fast or really slow " just comfort me a lot ! Those puzzles pieces left on my desk don't look so annoying right now. Really appreciate this video though!

[susanmetz]

My daughter always tricks me by taking the last piece and hiding it so that I can’t find it. Then she will magically appear and put the last piece in and take credit for finishing the puzzle. We laugh about it though.

[sandynorris]

I’m 74 yrs old and have started doing jigsaw puzzles! I love your blog! Thank you for all your help!

[jpatrick]

It’s so awesome that some people still enjoy low-tech things to keep them entertained. I grew up on jigsaw puzzles and model cars and airplanes. I never outgrew them. I’m trying to pass this on to my son, but it’s difficult when there are so many high-tech things out there. But you look like you enjoy this so much. It makes me happy that a young person appreciates them.

[MelSoCal]

I use paper plates to sort colors. I can get a pack at the dollar store, sort by color/shade, and best of all, the plates stack! They're easy to move around and set aside when not being used. I can just look for "that one color" and organize as needed :)

P.s. puzzle pieces!

[sandynichols]

Thank you, Karen! It's hard to believe that I am 57 years old and have never done a jigsaw puzzle before. I just bought one as a Christmas gift to start a new family hobby. We got the border together but then had no clue where to go from there. Your strategy on how to sort the puzzle pieces is so helpful! The puzzle is Leonardo Davinci's Last Supper and I will be gluing and framing it when we're done. 😊

[JoeVL]

Just did my first puzzle in maybe 30 years and I owe it all to you. It was so satisfying. Started with 500 puzzle pieces. I taped it together based on another video you did and it will go up in my office! Thank you!

[janicem]

I used to put puzzles together with my Mom when she was convalescing. Sitting quietly, sometimes for hours, looking for puzzle pieces or chatting and sharing stories was a great way to spend time with her. My three sisters all have fond memories of this time.

[terryberard]

One of my favorite hobbies is also doing puzzles. I'm 61 and have solved 100's over the years. I do them very similar to you. Edge pieces first. Sorting colours ans shapes, etc. But I purchased a large plastic container for laying all my pieces in. It's much larger than another puzzle box, so no laying them on top of each other. It had a lid that works as another surface for sorting. The container is about 24" x18". It has very low sides, about an inch deep. The kids edges are about half an inch. I also have several smaller plastic containers about 4"x 6" with low edges as well. I use these for sorting colours and shapes. I solve sections in the trays and use pieces of poster boards to lift and carry the sections to their proper places in the puzzle. I have cut out a few sizes to accommodate the sizes of sections I've completed in the containers. I too have no issue with breaking apart a puzzle 5 minutes after completion. Puzzles are expensive. I make at least 5, 1000 or more puzzles per week, so it can be very costly. I purchase the majority of my puzzles at second hand stores. You can purchase them for $2 or $3 each instead of $10 to $30 in retail stores. Over the many years I've been doing this, there have been less than about 6 puzzles ever missing a piece, and I've purchased 100's. . I often pick them up at garage sales for $1. I only do new ones if my husband or children give them to me as gifts. I will sometimes redo the same puzzles, but only after a few months of doing it. I donate my puzzles back to the second hand stores and to Retirement homes. I do however keep my favorite ones. I do have a life besides puzzles, but I have been battling cancer for several years, so am not able to be active or to be out in public a lot. Puzzles are great and something I really enjoy.

[livingloud]

I am a 60 yr old woman on a tropical island vacationing for 3 months alone. I began to think about what I wanted to do as a hobby and I remembered as a youth, I enjoyed puzzles. I came across your video when searching for instructions on how to hang a puzzle and I found your presentation to be a bubbly joy to listen to. God bless you sweetie. I thoroughly enjoyed. (Puzzle pieces)

[ElewinaX]

I got into puzzles at the beginning of the pandemic and about a year ago one puzzle broke me and I never finished it. I also just couldn't make myself give it up and start a new one and so it lays unfinished and now after watching it I'm gonna finish it! Great tips, thank you!

[auntiedoodles]

Two more of my tips: I use a large plastic Ziploc bag to put the "Puzzle pieces" for storage when I'm done. Also when moving sections, I use a spatula to guide them into a white paper plate.

[robertkribs]

2 minor things - #1 Where there is a dominant color piece like the turquoise I pull them from the box so that finding all of the colors of the section easier - #2 At the end when you just have the one dominant color pieces left I sort them by shade before sorting by shape

[gregfisher]

I want to thank you for publishing this video. I have been working on a puzzle for two days . It has an exercise in frustration and disappointment. The puzzle is only 500 pieces. The puzzle is an abstract of a Pit bull . The colors are very vibrant and the scheme of colors is quite complicated. I have sat at the puzzle for over an hour at a time trying to match the pieces. Now I saw your video and the method of how you sort the pieces and construct mini puzzles within the larger puzzle is a game changer for me! My mother loved to put together puzzles. She had a card table in her den and would sit and put her puzzles together till her eye site got bad as she had macular degeneration. When she passed away, we went through her things and a storage building in her backyard, she must have had 500 puzzles stacked on shelves. The puzzle I am working on, I do in her honor.

[genevievearchbaker]

I have small plastic sorting boxes, so when I sort the pieces I sort in edges and middle pieces and at the same time I sort on color. I am good at sorting because of my autism

[MorreskiBear]

So many blue "puzzle pieces" in that one. Sky pieces scare me. Well done!

[kenzievancity]

me and my mom sort out the colours at the same time that we sort out the edge pieces and flip them over, so its all done in one go. then we do the border. we then grab piles of the like colours and do sections. When there gets fewer pieces we organize piles into there puzzle shapes to make it easy to place them.

[ltvanburen]

My cousin taught me to initial and date the back of last piece before you put it in. If you are working on a puzzle with others, everyone can initial and date their last piece. Then, when you rework a puzzle, or pass it on, the puzzler comes across the piece(s) marked when it was last put together. My favorite puzzle ever is Verticalville. My mom bought it in the 1980’s when my grandma lived with us and we all put it together. Such a fun puzzle. I am 56, now, and I wish we had known then to initial and date the last pieces because then I would have notations on the pieces from all the family that worked in back then and again over the years. Best wishes. Puzzle Pieces!