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It's never too early to get started! I've purchased my cards for the next two years and couldn't resist tackling this one first. I've made two and constructed the following photo featuring the completed card in the center and a few of the pieces around the sides. The wood is 1/4" 5-ply poplar...

Hello.... It's been quite awhile since I've posted a jigsaw on this forum, so here is an international one for you. FLAGS is about a foot square, 255 pieces, cut from 1/4" poplar. My wife is starting on it now and I'm urging her to try assembling it without the little photo I always provide. I...

Hi folks,,, Here;s the second puzzle I've cut from a 14 x 10.5 calendar of unusual treehouses. I know from the first one that it will be tough to assemble, so I cut the pieces a little bigger (254 total). It should keep people frustrated for quite awhile. Carter

I've cut a couple puzzles from these calendar pictures before,. This one I tried to cut through the centers of the heavy black lines between colors. In a couple of spots, it was tricky to put together the 40 or so pieces I had just cut, so we'll see how my wife Jean likes it (she's ahead of me...

I haven't posted a puzzle on this forum for quite awhile, but here's one from a Quilt calendar that took only an hour and a half to cut, but much, much longer to assemble. Your comments are welcome. My wife Jean assembles every one of my puzzles (well over 750 over the past 19 years) and...

Just another puzzle of mine. I usually finish about three per month, but I've had this one mounted on the wood and ready for almost six months and finally got to it. For some reason, I'm really fond of the picture and was hesitating to cut it up.. I keep wondering what the girl is thinking...

I started this puzzle in early July and have been working on it periodically since then - - and it's finally done (about seven total hours of cutting). It came from a "Teapot" calendar which included a sheet of postcards of each calendar picture, held together by perforations. I cut it along...

Here are my latest two puzzles, totally different from each other but both ideal for families to assemble. Both are around 300 pieces, cut from 5-ply poplar and approximately a foot square. JUST IMAGINE is a whimsical picture from a calendar by Susan Winget. A lot of the locks are what I call...

In my January browsing of 09 calendars I ran across an Tokidoki calendar, filled with these Japanese-drawn characters. Every picture is a crowded montage of these little guys and my mind went nuts conjuring up the puzzles they would make. My 13-year-old granddaughter knew of Tokidoki and the...

Hello again, folks. Sorry to post two puzzles in a row, but one of the key contributors to this forum had a hand in this one. I couldn't figure out what the pastries were. I looked up Crumpets and Scones and they didn't seem to match, so I thought maybe they're just cookies. So I wrote one of...

Here's an example of the kind of color-line puzzle cutting I enjoy most. The puzzle, from a calendar picture, is roughly 9.5 x 11 inches and has 162 pieces. Each little item in the "Garage Sale" forms the basis for one or more puzzle pieces. It's a tricky but simple way to cut that never needs a...

I fully realize that this posting will make me appear more insane than you might previously have thought, but....I was in book store a few days ago casually looking for Christmas cards for next year's puzzles - and I found them! I bought 108 of them and just couldn't resist mounting a couple and...

When I was in high school and college, I liked to doodle during classes: rather complex doodles that weren't completed until many sessions had gone by. After graduations more than 50 years ago, I saved them. Shortly after my wife and I were married (almost 50 years), we filled in the doodles...

Hi friends.... Someone just started a topic showing his interest in jigsaw puzzles, so I thought I'd post this reminder that Christmas is coming... Calendars for next year will be out soon, many of them with pictures for December that might make ideal jigsaw puzzles as gifts. Also, the shelves...

Many of my puzzles are designed for families to put together, but this one...... Imagine your family (a spouse and 2 or 3 kids) facing a boring evening doing separate things in separate rooms. So you break out this puzzle of about 300 pieces, sturdy 1/4" poplar and a simple picture. You begin by...

It's been awhile since I've posted one of my puzzles onto this UK board, so here's one that should appeal to all sports fans. Here in the U.S. Scrapbooking is a big hobby and there are whole stores devoted to it. We have a local scrapbooking store that has hundreds of themed one-square-foot...

Here's a little one for the whole family, just 100 pieces and cut from a calendar picture with very bright colors. Note that all the locks between pieces are what I call Butterfly Tabs. They make it just a little trickier, but still easily assembled by anyone seven or older. It's made from my...

I haven't posted with you folks in awhile, so here's something a bit different. I make puzzles for families to assemble and avoid producing work that baffles people. This puzzle takes that philosophy right to the edge. It took only four hours to cut but it took my wife ten hours over ten days...

It's been a little while since I posted a picture of a new puzzle on this forum, so here is the Paramecium Party (my title). The picture is from a sheet I bought at a scrapbooking store. It's one square foot cut from 1/4" oak plywood and has about 330 pieces. It's an ideal picture for my style...

Hello my UK friends... Here's a ~350-piece puzzle I just finished for the coming season. It's cut with a FD 2/0 "Superior Puzzle" blade from 1/4" 5-ply poplar, which I've found to be remarkably sturdy and strong. The picture, from a Susan Winget calendar, is ideal for my color-line-cutting...