I love Jane Austen! She is one of my favourite authors. I am therefore very excited to announce that, in April 2012, I am travelling to Canberra, Australia, for the Jane Austen Festival!
The Jane Austen Festival is an annual festival held in Canberra, Australia, to celebrate the Regency era. The three day program includes a Country Fayre, a Festival Ball, and a promenade around Lake Burley Griffin. The weekend is filled with dance classes, sewing classes, an archery competition, and a number of talks on a variety of Regency topics.
The other wonderfully exciting thing about this festival is that Regency costumes are worn by the participants almost all the time!
Whilst I love sewing historical costumes, I have never actually made any from the Regency era, so I am about to embark on three months of mad drafting and sewing in order to finish some costumes for the festival. During this time, I will blog my progress, linking each post to the items below.
I will need to make:
A Regency-style corset
An embroidered dress for day wear
As well as:
Or you can go to My Regency Journey page to view all the posts in order.
I look forward to posting more about my exciting Regency Journey soon. I hope you enjoy following my progress!
There are similar festivals to celebrate the Regency era and Jane Austen all over the world. Check out the one nearest you!
Dressing up! My cup of tea!
Relevant Posts
How to make a Regency Poke Bonnet in Ten Steps
My Regency Journey: The Destination! – see what I did at the Jane Austen Festival, Australia, in 2012.
Relevant Links
Jane Austen Festival in Canberra, Australia – website
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How very exciting!!! I can’t wait to follow your progress. Last night I was watching ‘Pride & Prejudice’ and thinking that at times in my own household I sound rather like Mrs Bennett!
I am sure we all have our “Mrs Bennet Moments”! Hope you enjoy the Regency journey!
This looks amazing! I’m looking at flight already… I have a half finished Regency dress and this would give me the kick I need to get it done!
Also super keen to follow your progress! Where did you learn to draft patterns?
Oooh, it would be so exciting if you could come! 🙂
I initially started “drafting” when I would adjust patterns that already fit me well, in order to make historical costumes out of them. Nothing very hard though. Then I did a short course on Corset-Making, which covered how to make a corset pattern to fit your own body dimensions. This will be the topic of one of my next Regency Journey blogs.
I would love to do a proper short course on drafting patterns though! It would make my sewing skills so much more versatile.
SOOOOO exciting for you!!! Can’t wait to hear about it! I wanted to ask too Kell: Do you have a blog button that I can put up on the VJA blog so I can direct traffic back here (not that there is a huge amount but you know what I mean)
I am hugely excited! Almost ready to begin sewing the corset!
No, I dont have a blog button… I dont even know how to make one! That will be a new thing to learn!