PieceWork Spring 2025

Celebrate the 250^th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen with this collector’s edition of PieceWork magazine! Delve into the beautiful needlework that surrounded Austen and her characters. Get insight into the costumes and customs of Regency dances and the delicate patchwork and embroidery of society ladies. Explore handmade traditions as you embroider a magnificent needle-painted camellia and tat a handkerchief edging worthy of a storybook heroine. Plus, learn about what the knitters of the early nineteenth century had on their needles and more.

• Knit Shirley Paden’s ethereal lace rectangular shawl for a showstopping occasion
• Immerse yourself in an article about Jane Austen’s own needlework that is on display at Jane Austen’s House Chawton, in Bath, UK
• Make lovely rose-covered petit point miniature dance slippers by Natalia Frank—perfect as pincushions and thimble holders or charming as decorations
• Stitch Catherine Theron’s dainty mini biscornu scissor fob in counted embroidery on linen
• Knit Sarah Kelly’s delightful stranded mitts designed with cameos of Elizabeth and Darcy—a perfect gift for the Austen lover in your life

PieceWork Spring 2025 is full of beautiful projects and stories that will transport you back to a time when needlework was done for pleasure and as a creative outlet by some fortunate stitchers.

Enjoy the enduring elegance of 250-year-old needlework and craft a little romance in your own life, all with this collector’s edition issue ofPieceWork.

CONTENTS

• Jane Austen: Letters, Needles, and Novels by Jennie Batchelor
• What Would Jane Austen Knit? By Carol J. Sulcoski
• Dear Elizabeth Fingerless Mitts by Sarah Kelly
• “Exquisite with the Pen, Delicate with the Needle”: Jane Austen’s Needlework and Jane Austen House by Sophie Reynolds and Lizzie Dunford, Jane Austen’s House
• The Regency Shawl by Shirley Paden
• Dancing Fashions and Fashionable Dances: Invitation to a Regency Ball by Karin J. Bohleke
• Diminutive Dance Slippers by Natalia Frank
• Surrounded by Stitching: Regency Selections from the Royal School of Needlework Collection by Isabella Rosner
• Small Stitches: A Mini Biscornu by Catherine Theron
• Hartfield Manor Wall Hanging by Debra Milkovich
• Camellia: An Excerpt from The Kew Book of Embroidered Flowers by Trish Burr
• Revisited: A Handkerchief Edging to Tat by Trish Faubion