A stitch in time
The complaints about Winchester Cathedral’s proposed Jane Austen statue have quieted down lately, or so I conclude from the silence of my...
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The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Deborah Yaffe
- May 2
Embroidering Chawton
The last time I completed a significant piece of needlework (see below) was during the early months of pandemic quarantine, when being...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 18, 2018
Ready for its closeups
A couple of months ago, when Jane Austen’s House Museum unveiled the results of the collaborative quilting project it organized to...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 26, 2018
Unveiling the Jane Austen quilts
The delightful Jane Austen Quilt project culminated earlier this month with the unveiling at Jane Austen’s House Museum of two beautiful...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 8, 2018
Patching together Austen's life
Among the commemorations planned during last year’s bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, one of the most delightful was the Chawton quilt...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 19, 2016
Women's work, international edition
When I was a girl – yes, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth – I was a dab hand at needlepoint. I stitched plastic canvas into keepsake...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 25, 2016
What the--?
By now, it’s hardly a shock that other people see things in Jane Austen that I just can’t find there. Heck, I wrote a whole book about...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 16, 2016
Crafting time
Today’s edition of Jane Austen Craft Projects I Wish I Had Time For features a charming cross-stitch kit based on one of C.E. Brock’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 31, 2014
Awesome mom, possibly a Janeite
Most of us moms are muddling along, trying to make sure the kids eat something besides cold cereal, wear clothing that is reasonably...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 24, 2014
P&P & Quilts
Visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum, fondly known as Chawton Cottage, love to admire the patchwork quilt stitched by Austen, her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 14, 2013
Tiny Regency furniture
I can’t imagine anything more fun than the you-got-your-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter combination of Jane Austen and dollhouse...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 31, 2013
Needling Jane
I’m not a knitter, but for years I’ve been intrigued by the “Jane Austen Knits” link that keeps popping up in my Google alert, one in a...
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