Wide Back Jane Austen at Home – Accomplished Woman by Riley Blake Designs 3 Yard Package
Celebrate timeless elegance with Jane Austen’s Accomplished Woman wide back fabric from the Jane Austen at Home collection by Riley Blake Designs. Created in partnership with Jane Austen’s House, this premium 108" cotton wide back showcases a graceful botanical and script-inspired design that pays tribute to the literary icon’s enduring legacy.
Perfect for backing quilts, heirloom projects, or refined home décor, this fabric combines historical charm with modern versatility. Crafted from high-quality quilting cotton, it offers exceptional softness, durability, and a sophisticated palette to complement your cherished creations.
Product Details:
Collection: Jane Austen at Home – Accomplished Woman
Designer: Riley Blake Designs
Size: 107"/108" wide (3 yard pack)
Material: 100% Premium Quilting Cotton
Use: Quilt backing, sewing, home décor, gift projects
Colorway: Vintage-inspired tones with Austen-themed motifs
Officially licensed in partnership with Jane Austen’s House
Designs inspired by Sense & Sensibility, Austen’s beloved novel of love, loss, and resilience
Pairs beautifully with Emma, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Jane at Home fabric collections. Be sure to check out our Jane Austen quilt kits and coordinating notions for a complete Regency-inspired sewing experience.
Add to your cart today and stitch your way through a literary celebration!
Whether you're a dedicated Austenite or simply love timeless, literary-inspired fabric, the Sense & Sensibility Fabric collection brings a touch of period elegance to your sewing room.
Pair with coordinating Riley Blake notions or use it for your next quilt, book sleeve, apron, or dress project!
Series of quilt kits: Jane Austen Coverlet Quilt, Pride and Prejudice, Barton Cottage (Sense and Sensibility), Mansfield Park, and now Emma.
In addition to the beautiful Jane Austen at Home Collection, we are also celebrating the 250 Anniversary of Jane Austen in 2025 with stunning commemorative notions and finished goods, and an exquisite BOM Anniversary Quilt designed my Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet. Join us as we celebrate this beloved author, musician, and quilter.
Riley Blake Designs is honored to be the exclusive licensor for Jane Austen’s House exclusive fabric, notions, and finished goods. To learn more about the Jane Austen House, visit our website rileyblakedesigns.com/jane-austen
Purchase the 250th Anniversary Quilt Kit Here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4315078154/new-jane-austens-250th-anniversary-bom
Ideal For:
Heirloom quilts, vintage-style garments, and refined home décor
Journals, pillows, book bags, and gifts for Austen lovers
Don’t forget to browse our Jane Austen-inspired quilt kits, Sew Simple Shapes, and coordinating notions!
About the Line:
Jane Austen's House is in the charming village of Chawton, Hampshire, U.K. It is the place where Jane wrote and revised all of her published Novels, and is visited by over 40,000 people each year, from all over the world. The house contains items that belonged to Jane including her writing table and her ring.
One of the most popular exhibits is the one made by Jane and her sister, Cassandra and their Mother. Strictly, it is not a quilt, but a coverlet as there is no layer of wadding, simply a patchwork top with a cotton batting. It is a medallion quilt measuring 91 inches by 105 inches with a large central motif of chintz cut as a diamond. This is surrounded by a central panel of 232 smaller diamonds interconnected by spotted sashing. The outer edge 11 inches deep, is composed of tiny diamonds, each with edges of 30mm. There are over 2,500 of these smaller diamonds withing the border. All the patches are joined by very fine whip stich--there are approximately 12 stitches per inch, which is quite remarkable given the lighting conditions of the period.
The fabrics used in the central panel are block printed dress weight fabrics and are arranged in rows of darker and lighter. Those in the outer edge are a mix of block and roller printed material and include both dress and furnishing fabrics. There are many remarkable things about this quilt, aside from the fact that it was stitched by one of the world's favourite authors. The central panel of diamonds shows fourfold symmetry in their placement and the tiny diamonds in the outer edge are also place symmetrically with top and bottom and left and right sides matching. There is also extensive use of fussy cutting in the diamonds. This was a very carefully planned quilt. The diamonds are 70 degree and 110 degree angles, which is very unusual, and the sashing joining the central diamonds is composed of short pieces, rather than continuous lengths--perhaps fabric left from a previous project? We have not found another quilt like this anywhere, it is truly a unique piece (although there are rumors of other quilts made by the Austen ladies, and this was clearly not the first quilt they had made in terms of the quality of the design).
We do not know the exact date of this quilt, but do know that the Austens were working on a quilt in May of 1811, as Jane wrote in a letter to her sister Cassandra, "Have you remembered to collect pieces for the patchwork-we are at a standstill". Cassandra was staying with her brother Edward on his estate in Kent, where there would have been many fabric pieces available from the dressmaker who made clothes for his eleven children.
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