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The Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Needlecase

Name: The Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Needlecase
SKU: KITJANE
Availability: OutOfStock

£225.00

OUT OF STOCK: Our kits are hand-made in small batches by my family team and take many hours. We have a waiting list for each kit. Please subscribe to the waiting list for this kit below. We will email a special password to you when you reach the top, allowing you to purchase. For more information, read our FAQs. For urgent kit requests or queries, please contact me.

Description

This design was commissioned by Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen in 2025.

The needlecase was inspired by the beautiful red brick cottage itself but also by various items from the collection housed there. The fan shape and stylised oak bough were inspired by the Wedgwood porcelain and the view towards the house from the garden where one looks through the boughs of an oak.

The ivy sprig is inspired by one of the original wallpapers discovered and reproduced in the house. The needlecase is lined with a fabric printed from another wallpaper design.

The design also includes motifs taken from the whitework handkerchief embroidered by Jane for her sister Cassandra and the painted needlecase made by Jane for her niece. The piece also includes the ‘Chawton Rose’, a beautiful pale rose with a bright pink centre.

The needlecase opens to include flannel pages and pockets for storage (items inside the needlecase not included).

The kit includes everything required to embroider the design and make this up into the needlecase.

There is a complete set of teaching videos available for this project.

Finished design measures 18 x 12 x 1.5 cm

£10 from every kit sold will be donation to Jane Austen’s House to help with their work preserving the house and the collection.

Additional information

Weight	750 g
Dimensions	32 × 22 × 4 cm
country_of_manufacture	GB
hs_code	5006001000

Kit Contents for Jane Austen Needlecase

Duchess satin base fabric with pre-printed design

Au Ver à Soie silk threads

House of Embroidery space-dyed cotton and silk threads

Japanese metallic thread

Stranded cottons

Fine silk flosses

Metallic wires and threads made in the UK

Indian coloured purls

Silk gimps made for Jenny in the UK

Czech glass pearls

Glass seed beads

Metallic mesh ribbon

Felt padding

Pre-cut conservation quality card forms

Mother-of-pearl button

Cotton satin digitally printed with the ‘Chawton Leaf’ wallpaper design

Wool flannel needlecase pages

Natural linen lining fabric

Heavy button thread

Shaded ribbon

Pack of decorative miniature pins

All needles required

Fully illustrated instruction booklet

Extra Requirements for Jane Austen Needlecase

• * 8” bound embroidery hoop

• *A suitable stand to support your hoop, allowing both hands to be free for working (floor stand/seat stand/table clamp)

• *Curved tip scissors

• *A fine beading awl for making tiny holes

• A mellor or aficot for guiding threads into place and laying threads smoothly

• A velvet-lined tray to hold beads and metal purls(small or large)

• Thimble if you like to use one

• Tweezers

• Magnifying light

• A small glue brush

KIT FAQs

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

WHAT DOES MY KIT INCLUDE?
Your kit includes all the fabric, threads and needles required to complete the design, together with a highly comprehensive illustrated instruction manual, written and drawn by Jenny. All threads are carefully packaged and labelled to denote where they are to be used in the design. We suggest you have a look through all the components to familiarise yourself with the complete kit before starting work. Where relevant, kits also include the materials required to construct the completed embroidery.

WILL I NEED ANYTHING ELSE TO ENABLE ME TO COMPLETE MY KIT?
Yes, but only basic embroidery equipment. A list of the items required can be found in the front of your instruction manual. All items can be purchased from our website. If you have any queries about equipment, please feel free to contact us for advice.

HOW MUCH EXPERIENCE DO I NEED TO BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THE KIT?
Most of our kits are designed for embroiderers with some experience, but the instruction manuals are extremely comprehensive and will teach you all you need to know.
If you have any difficulties, or need advice on the difficulty level of a certain kit, you are welcome to contact us.

I FIND TRANSFERRING DESIGNS ON TO FABRIC DIFFICULT
Don’t worry, the designs are all pre-printed for you!

CAN I POST IMAGES OF MY KIT/WORK ON MY BLOG/SOCIAL MEDIA/WEBSITE?
We will be delighted if you wish to show images of this project on your blog/social media/website, as this often inspires others to have a go! However, as a courtesy, please do let me know if you plan to do this, and be aware that blogging of techniques, step-by-step or close-up images, either of the project in progress, the instructions, and the kit contents, is an infringement of copyright. Please always credit the design source and always include Jenny’s website and contact details so that those reading your blog can get in touch. Please highlight any infringements of this copyright which you observe from others.

I AM STRUGGLING WITH A SECTION OF THE DESIGN
One of the most important aspects of buying a kit from us is that you have direct contact to Jenny by email and she will be happy to assist you and provide advice. We cannot always answer within the hour but we will get back to you as soon as possible. If you are really struggling and need more help, we can arrange a lesson for you or to complete the section for you.

I AM MISSING A COMPONENT IN MY KIT OR HAVE RUN OUT OF A THREAD
We do our absolute best to ensure these situations don’t occur, but your kit is made by humans rather than machines and we do occasionally have a senior moment! Please feel free to let us know and we will be happy to supply more.

I AM NOT HAPPY WITH MY WORK AND WOULD LIKE TO RE-WORK
We totally understand this – most embroiderers incline to perfectionism! While we sadly can’t provide more materials for free, please just let us know what you require and we will be very happy to supply more.

MY DOG/HUSBAND/HOOVER/SOFA/CAT/GOLDFISH ATE MY THREAD!
It happens! Not a problem. Just let us know what you need
and whilst we can’t send these for free, we are more than
happy to supply more.

MY THREAD IS DIFFERENT TO THAT IN THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DESIGN
Thread colours may vary somewhat due to dyeing processes and can appear different in reality due to photographic distortion. Due to limitations posed by suppliers, we also reserve the right to substitute project materials with suitable alternatives to those illustrated if absolutely necessary.

HOW CAN I FIND OUT ABOUT NEW DESIGNS?
Please go to Jenny’s website where you can join the mailing list to find out about all new releases. We promise only to send you relevant embroidery-related news and not to pass your details to third parties.

CAN I SUBMIT MY WORK TO A CRAFT SHOW OR COMPETITION?
We are delighted if you have enjoyed working the project and would like to submit your piece to a craft/country show competition etc. Please do let Jenny know if you are doing this as she would love to hear how you get on. Please always credit the design source and always include Jenny’s website and contact details so that people viewing the piece can get in touch.

CAN I TEACH THE DESIGN TO OTHERS?
If you have enjoyed working the project yourself and would like to share this with friends or wish to work the design with your students, you are welcome to contact Jenny for more kits. The kit and accompanying instructions must otherwise not be copied, reproduced or taught in any form without prior permission. This will otherwise infringe copyright. Multiple kit orders are welcome and can be supplied on a wholesale basis by arrangement. Please contact Jenny for more details.

I WOULD LIKE HELP WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OR DISPLAY OF MY FINISHED WORK
Excellent news. We hope you have enjoyed the journey and are delighted with the finished result! If you would like help with mounting or finishing the design, please feel free to get in touch. If you would like to order a frame, box or similar for displaying the finished piece, please visit the webshop.

Extra Kit Information

Each kit is designed with your stitching joy in mind and is lovingly created for you over many hours by our tiny family team in the UK.

Every material you could need to complete the design, however small, is included in carefully-labelled packets. Some kits include over 100 components!

We use only the very best quality materials, and many are made for us by specialist craftspeople sourced by Jenny throughout her career, and hailing from around the globe. Jenny’s skilled family members are often commandeered to make various bespoke components which could never be found otherwise.

Once you purchase a design, we want to you to enjoy and finish the project and therefore are always on hand to answer queries, however small or daft you feel they may be.

The highly comprehensive instruction manuals are written and hand-illustrated by Jenny, rather than using generic stitch diagrams. These are full of the tips and tricks required to express stitches and designs at their very best.

All design shapes are pre-printed on to the various materials included in your kit, to ensure that you have accurate design shapes to work from and can progress straight on to the embroidery without having to transfer the design yourself.

We also aim to provide various items for display or construction of the finished embroidery, allowing you the satisfaction of framing the piece yourself or turning it into a more unusual item such as a bag or book.

I hope that this special design will provide you with a VIP ticket to ‘Jennyland’, an all-consuming experience which will transport you a world of stitching pleasure and imagination. Enjoy!