How do you organize when doing a jigsaw puzzle?

Asked by JLeslie (65981) January 16th, 2023 from iPhone

I’m currently doing a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. It’s a lot of little pieces. Ha!

How do you usually tackle these things? Most people do the border first, I do too, but what about after that? Do you organize the pieces by color? Do you change your angle sitting in front then in back? Do you wind up standing up a lot?

I first work on color groups, including putting pieces near each other in the same color family.

Pretty early on I put all of the pieces that have an arabesque shape on at least one corner of the piece in a group together.

Eventually, at about 60–70% of the way through, I shift to organizing almost all remaining pieces by shape, which I think most people don’t do, but maybe I’m wrong. I put all the four sided outies together, all the four sided innies together, etc. Let’s see what the collective does.

The first time I put the shapes together, my husband commented on it as something he hadn’t seen before.