As usual, participants were making up puzzles and discussing them on flickr from the beginning of the weekend, and somewhat before! The Show and Tell theme was very well chosen; eight members presented some beautiful and varied puzzles on the
June 2022 meeting – Down Hatherley
A small group of members met in the pretty village of Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire. There were puzzles galore – puzzles being made, puzzles for sale, puzzles for loan, and completed puzzles on display. The theme of the Show and Tell
Jigsaw Pieces Issue 145 Summer 2022
The summer edition was larger than usual, and packed with interest, including articles about commissioning personal puzzles (Jackie), the Zig Zag puzzle company (Nicki), Terence Cuneo (Mollie) , laser cutters from Ukraine and hand cutters Adam Ferner and Peter Bollinger.
Peacocks and Amber – virtual talks, May 2022
Our latest event, two short presentations, took place on Zoom, and attracted almost 40 members. Wout has been researching how we can be sure that many of the wooden jigsaw puzzles sold in the 1910s and 20s by department stores
Jigsaw Pieces Issue 144 Spring 2022
Jigsaw Pieces is under new management, but the quality and variety of the contents is unchanged! This issue focussed on the January virtual meeting, ‘Cardboard and more’, with pages of colourful examples of cardboard puzzles old and new, and a
Wyverstone Jigsaw Festival
We are pleased to be able to promote The 2nd Wyverstone Jigsaw Festival
BCD 2022 House Party – Peterborough
Despite the best efforts of the covid pandemic (which prevented our Chair and several international members, among others, from attending) and Storm Eunice, at its worst on the day most people arrived, this year’s house party was a great success.For
January 2022 meeting – virtual
Seven long months since the last virtual meeting, and some club members were posting photos on flickr well before the puzzling weekend began. There were far more cardboard puzzles than usual, because by popular demand, the theme of the Show
Jigsaw Pieces Issue 143 January 2022
The Lingfield meeting was recorded in this issue, including a nostalgic Show and Tell on the theme ‘Puzzles revisited during lockdown’. They included a Wentworth patchwork coverlet, a Liberty London street map and (the best kind of old puzzle) a
Puzzle Parley 2022
Announcing the 2022 Puzzle Parley, the sixteenth in-person parley since 1994! After the long Covid-19 hiatus, the popular in-person Puzzle Parley will return the weekend of July 22-24, 2022 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, just 65 miles west of Boston. Please save