Puzzle nerd interview: Karen Kavett

 If you’ve ever searched ‘jigsaw puzzle’ on Youtube, you’ve seen her videos. Karen Kavett (Karen Puzzles) is one of the biggest names in the puzzle world. Her Youtube channel is full of beautiful time-lapse videos of her completing puzzles of all shapes and sizes, plus honest and helpful reviews on a range of brands (including Cloudberries, of course) and even some tips and tricks that are great for puzzle lovers of all levels. Put simply, Karen is puzzle royalty!

Karen Kavett is the biggest puzzle YouTuber

And her booming puzzle channel isn’t even her main gig! Her wildly popular Karen Crafts channel has four times as large an audience and has led to her joining the hgtvhandmade team! Read our interview with Karen to learn more about her journey to puzzle-fame (what a time to be alive!), her puzzles and craft empire, plus future puzzle projects.

Tell us about your ‘puzzle journey’- When did you start puzzling, how’d you get interested, and what led you to start making puzzle videos?

I’ve been doing jigsaw puzzles since before I can even remember. Everyone in my family loves puzzles, and I have very vivid memories of my mom working on puzzles with my sister and I, teaching us how to do them and letting us be more independent as we got old enough to do them ourselves. There were always puzzles around in our house and it became a hobby I really loved.

In 2018, I wanted to make some videos about how to do a puzzle and about my jigsaw puzzle collection for my main channel, since I had posted a lot of Instagram photos of my puzzles, and people always had questions. I ended up having so many ideas for more jigsaw puzzle videos that eventually I decided to delete all of the puzzle videos off of my main channel and make a brand-new channel on YouTube just dedicated to custom jigsaw puzzles!

You have seen and done a lot of puzzles – what about a puzzle makes it stand out to you? How do you decide what puzzles to feature on your channel?

I love any puzzles that are colourful, because I always say that if I’m going to be staring at something for hours on end, I want it to be colours that make me happy. When it comes to puzzles that I feature on the channel, I look for puzzles that are on the easier side, since I don’t want to end up with hours and hours of footage from a difficult puzzle.

I think it also makes a better video if you see me continually making progress on the puzzle rather than just staring at it and trying wrong pieces for ages. I also like puzzles that have some interesting aspect to them that I can talk about, whether it’s a unique style of artwork, interesting piece shapes, or anything else that’ll make it stand out.

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