I love puzzles!!!

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Count me in! I have one sitting on the coffee table, just bursting to get out of the box!! Saving it for a snowy day when I can't get out and don't even want to! But hey--that's also a quilting day!!!

I love jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles and Suduko.

I was also very good at math in school. I think that kind of "math" mind set helps with quilting.

I definitely a quilter and a puzzle lover. I love looking at the subtle variation in a color and play of the light on objects.

I love 3d puzzles and Thomas Kinkade jigsaws

I love jigsaw puzzles and crosswords and puzzle games on line. I also do a jigsaw on line at jigzone.com. We're just a bunch of brainy broads. :thumbup:

Quote: Now the question is: If you like to quilt and you like jigsaw puzzles were you good in math in school? Do the 'math people" piece more traditional quilts and the "non-math quilters- do more non-traditional or art quilts?

I won't help you with that theory. I'm good at math (which is very creative -- many ways to get to the answer) but I dislike jigsaw puzzles. I do like crosswords, in moderation, and sudoko I like moderately well. I do some traditional quilting, though never follow a written pattern -- I just look at it and figure out how that can be made. And I like free form, somewhat more arty quilt styles, because you're creating throughout the entire process, as opposed to creating the pattern, and then crafting the execuction.

RST

Well, I quilt and do jigsaw puzzles and I am a math person. i tutor for the local community college. i have also taught many math classes. I always wanted to be an architect when I was growing up, but in the 60's that was a "man's" job. I figure quilting is the same thing with a different medium.

My husband and I love to put jigsaw puzzles together and we also take a double sub. to jumbo crosswords so we can each work a puzzle and then compare answers. I recently found 28 puzzles on craig's list and the lady sold them to me for $15. They are all 750 to 1000 piece puzzles. We have enough to get us thru the winter. As much as I love puzzles, my quilting will not suffer from it. I quilt a little and then put a few pieces in the puzzle. Gets me up and out of the chair about every 15 to 20 minutes. Very good therapy.

I definitely do! And crosswords and soduku, too...Do you think there's something to it?

My dear maternal g'mother and I would do puzzles when I stayed there in the summertime. We always laughed when she would say "when I'm old and in a nursing home, you'll come see me and bring puzzles." She never was in a NH, rather died in hospital after a short illness. She was not much of a stitcher.
My paternal g'grandmother was the quilter. I also spent time with her when growing up, but I don't remember her doing much sewing then. She did have a ceiling mounted quilting frame which always fascinated me. Never saw it in use. Guess maybe her quilting days were behind by then.

I still enjoy both, quilting and jigsaw puzzles! Thanks grandmas!

I think this proves I like crossword puzzles and quilting!!

I do!!!

I love to do puzzles. It was a common activity in the winter growing up. At sisters for Christmas week we did about one a day.

OH Peggyino! I LOVE that quilt! Awesome!!!

Count me in!!! I started on jigsaw puzzles when I was preschool age. And math is fun for me, too - just another puzzle!

I love puzzles and any puzzle game.

Thanks! It was for my nephews graduation. Lots of fun doing it and making the puzzle myself!

Love puzzles, love sudoko.

I was never a "math" person. Never took more than Trig. in High School and one Business Math Class in College as my required Math class. I don't do "artsy" quilts, I am more tradiitionalist. I don't like Sudoko, tried to get it, but just can't figure it out. Do crossword puzzles, though not as much now that I'm not working. I look at the NY TImes Sunday puzzle and sigh. My parents both do it in INK!!

Kathy

My mom is 92 and in a nursing home. She has Alzheimers and can't remember very much about her past. She does recognize us (her children) when we visit, but that is about all. EXCEPT for crossword puzzles. She can complete just about any crossword puzzle in no time flat (unless there is any popular culture questions in it). Mom has always excelled in crossword puzzles and I am so glad that she can still do well in something!

I quilt and do jigsaw puzzles. We do the puzzels as a family during the winter months. We have a blast. We have complete shaped puzzels.(Dragons) and we have finished three d ones. Those have been the hardest plus a dozen or better regular puzzles. We try to purchase a new puzzel each year. K

Jane Wooster Scott is my favorite artist too!! What a coincidence!! Several years ago, since I love doing puzzles, my husband bought the software Brainsbreaker and every now and then, I make puzzles of JWS but directly on my internet screen - up to 500 pieces (so that the pieces are still visible). This little software is wonderful and I can even create puzzles of up to 100 pieces and send them to my little grandchildren (Spiderman and Batman are their favorites). Just love it!

ME, love em.

Love puzzles!!!!

Vic

Jigsaws? used to love 'em. Still do. Trouble is quilting and this board have taken over..lol

Love jig-saw puzzles! Have one on the card table when I don't have a quilt on the hoop for hand-quilting.

Love jigsaw puzzles. Almost bought myself a 24,000 piece one for my Christmas present to myself but I couldn't figure out where I could put the darn thing together. It was something like 6 feet high and 18 wide. Don't quote me on the measurements, but it was wall sized.

I've loved them since I was a little girl. That's what we did before TV.

I use to do puzzles, but needed the dinning room table for other important things, quilting.......... Now that I have my own sewing area may just start the puzzle thing again.

I love all kinds of puzzles, and I was good in Math in school. My maternal grandmother always grabbed the paper as soon as it came in the door while she was staying with us and worked the crossword. My mother did them as she got older and moved off the farm and had time on her hands. She did them almost up to the time of her death in the nursing home. I love to do them, and our local paper does have the the cryptoquote, which I sometimes find the only thing I read since they don't do a very good with local news.

Love to! I keep one going on a piece of batting so I can roll it up when it needs to be put aside for a while.

Love jig saw puzzles. Always have one set up in the TV room on my card table. I can't just sit and watch TV. I'm either crocheting, doing embroidery or jig saw puzzle. Course then there is cutting for a quilt. Have to keep my hands busy. I get the puzzles from Salvation Army. They are cheaper than Goodwill. I don't care if a piece here and there are missing. I like 750 or 1000 pieces. Any bigger and they won't fit on the table.
Rita

jigzone.com has thousands of puzzles to put together on line. nothing big and complicated. You can change the shapes and sizes of the puzzle pieces. If you like jigsaw puzzles, check this out. I have a card table I keep my puzzles on so I don't have to move them around and out of the way. This way, my puzzles have their own designated spot. I can work on them when I have time.

Since I've retired I don't have time for cross word puzzles. Too busy doing so many things now and no time, barely have time to read lol.

Don't like jigsaw puzzles.

I do NOT do puzzles! lol! the boys got one down the other day and asked me to help them with it. I got so aggravated halfway thru I told them their sister would have to help them finish it.

I don't know abt. that, Terrible at math as I stated and do Pretty darn good on my quilting... :roll: Or I think I do anyway. :lol: But Only do Basic Math, So as long as I know how to read a ruler,Multiply,divide,add,subtract and fractions,I dont think you have to have a Math mind set to do beautiful quilting.. My Opinion only :thumbup: BillsBonBon

I help my kids put none complicated jigsaws together. I LOVE word puzzles.....almost as much as I love quilting!