Jennifer Forest's Blog, page 5

What would Jane Austen keep in her sewing box?

I don't have a huge collection of 19th or 20th century sewing tools, just a select number of things I have inherited or found at vintage fairs. But I have meet people who have a passionate love of collecting sewing tools, and they have some truly amazing items. But aside...

Seen But Not Heard?

Source: Flickr -Lin pernille Jane Austen’s mother sent each of her babies at the age of three month old out to a local family to nurse and raise the child. The baby was raised in another family’s home but was visited each day by their parents: seen every day but...

Should You Write A Craft Book?

I went down the traditional find- a-publisher route for my bestseller Jane Austen's Sewing Box: that is, make a sample project, write a chapter, search for publishers who might be interested, contact, cross fingers and hope..... and I was very lucky to find the amazing Kay Scarlett who completely understood...

Sugar & Spice and All Things Nice?

Source: Flickr the green gal I tend to do a lot of research when I'm preparing for a book (or report for work or anything like that). I like to make sure I have the big picture fully under control! Which means that I then often have a lot of...

My Life in Two Minutes

I have always enjoyed Valerie Khoo's My Life in a Minute blog posts that she does over at her site. So as I turn to my much neglected blog at the beginning of 2012, I thought it would be fun to write a post like her posts with a few...

Craft Sanity Magazine Summer Issue

I had a delightful chat with Jennifer Ackerman-Hayward of Craft Sanity over Easter. It was quite a free ranging conversation about all sorts of things - including craft, Jane Austen, children and the towns we live in, just to name a few. I've enjoyed her podcasts immensely over the years...