{"id":10086,"date":"2016-09-20T09:06:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2016-09-17T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:47:23","slug":"visit-to-chawton-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/20\/visit-to-chawton-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Chawton House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10094\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TheStitchOff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10094\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TheStitchOff-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Stitch Off\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TheStitchOff-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TheStitchOff-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TheStitchOff.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stitch Off<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You may recall that I&#8217;ve written several times about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ladys-magazine\/2015\/11\/27\/the-great-ladys-magazine-stitch-off\/\">Great Lady&#8217;s Magazine Stitch Off<\/a>. A good many of us found our Twitter timelines more fun and more colourful for several months, while we played with the designs and watched each other play with them. Some of those pieces (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/23\/the-great-ladys-magazine-stitch-off-3\/\">my pashmina<\/a>) then went on display at Chawton House Library, as part of their exhibition &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chawtonhouse.org\/?p=60916\">Emma At 200<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>And last week, I finally got to Chawton House to see the Exhibition!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10086 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PennyGore.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PennyGore-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Panel Stitched by Penny Gore\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10109\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10109'>\n\t\t\t\tPanel Stitched by Penny Gore\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ElizabethEmmensWilson.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ElizabethEmmensWilson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Tablecloth stitched by Elizabeth Emmens-Wilson\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ElizabethEmmensWilson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ElizabethEmmensWilson-768x775.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ElizabethEmmensWilson.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10108'>\n\t\t\t\tTablecloth stitched by Elizabeth Emmens-Wilson\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MaryMartin.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MaryMartin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Panel stitched by Mary Martin\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10107\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10107'>\n\t\t\t\tPanel stitched by Mary Martin\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Chawton House itself is interesting, but instead of being simply a respectable country residence, it now houses a library which is a genuine scholar&#8217;s resource, as well as containing displays about women writers and even one about Jane Austen&#8217;s publisher (a man she described, in a letter to her sister Cassandra, as &#8220;<i>a rogue, but a civil one<\/i>&#8220;).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-10086 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MoreStitchOff.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/MoreStitchOff-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"More glories....\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-10098\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-10098'>\n\t\t\t\tMore glories&#8230;.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GloriousPotPlant.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GloriousPotPlant-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Pot and Pot Plant by Corinne Young\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-10096\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-10096'>\n\t\t\t\tPot and Pot Plant by Corinne Young\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ShoesAndKissingBall2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/ShoesAndKissingBall2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Kissing Ball and Shoes\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-10095\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-10095'>\n\t\t\t\tKissing Ball and Shoes\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>And a wonderful, oak-panelled room, full of Stitch Off delights. I was particularly pleased to find that everyone&#8217;s pieces looked better than when I saw them on Twitter, accompanied by apologetic indicators of Where I Went Wrong. There were exquisite renditions in period-appropriate techniques and materials, and there were completely different pieces using modern techniques and materials, some even machine stitched using computer controlled sewing machines, some finished pieces, and some simply presented, either laced over card or even still in the hoops they may have been worked in. They all looked wonderful &#8211; a real treat!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10099\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WithMyPash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10099\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10099\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WithMyPash-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"Me with my pashmina, photographed by Darren Bevin\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WithMyPash-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WithMyPash-768x673.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WithMyPash.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me with my pashmina, photographed by Darren Bevin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And I found my pashmina, draped over a chair&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph was taken by Darren Bevin, the librarian at Chawton House Library, and has already appeared on Twitter. We missed a trick, in fact &#8211; I should have picked it up and swept it around my shoulders, as I will when I get it back again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that I&#8217;ve written several times about the Great Lady&#8217;s Magazine Stitch Off. A good many of us found our Twitter timelines more fun and more colourful for several months, while we played with the designs and watched each other play with them. Some of those pieces (including my pashmina) then went on&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/20\/visit-to-chawton-house\/\">Continue Reading Visit to Chawton House<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,172,171],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apparel","tag-ladys-magazine","tag-stitch-off","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10114,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}