'My 'Pride and Prejudice' Project Begins'

With a pattern in hand and some interesting ideas, I will embark on a project that will take me into the world of Jane Austen.

What sort of project you ask?

A journey into the experience of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. One which will take a lot of perseverance and some Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century know how! Considering I never lived two hundred years ago; this will be a challenge.

I will need to research all I can to succeed!

The project will run over a year and throughout the year I will gain a small glimpse into Jane Austen's world.

I guess you are wondering how I am going to do this in such a technologically advanced world; I won't be experiencing it twenty-four hours a day for the whole year. I will just experience different aspects of that time in a 24 hour period.

For instance: I am not a sewing person! I will however, be sewing my own costume; wearing it for a day, to see what it was like to be constrained by so many layers.

There will be failure; there will be tears; I am sure I will want to give up, but I will be writing this blog (as a diary) to document my journey; my research and my year!

My first hiccup has already revealed itself! I am baffled at the pattern details: I cannot read a pattern! What does 3 3/4 Yd mean? I am sewing illiterate! Anyway that is what Mother's are for!

So I hope you will stay tuned; take the journey with me and experience a little of Jane Austen's world!