Jane Brocket

Jane Brocket was one of the first craft bloggers, launching the hugely successful craft blog - yarnstorm - a decade ago to showcase her colourful domestic life, including rock buns, stripey knitted socks, rainbow tulips and candy-coloured quilts. It was voted one of the top  blogs of 2012 by BBC Homes & Antiques Mag and led to a raft of imitations. She is a Master of Wine and author of many books. Her subjects are creativity, baking, domesticity, culture, wine, travel and gardening and her approach is to revel in the small pleasures of life, and to find beauty and colour everywhere. More recently she has undertaken an MA in the Art of Stained Glass. She lives in Cambridge. 

Her much-lauded classic book THE GENTLE ART OF DOMESTICITY (Hodder, 2007) was a gorgeous celebration of all the domestic arts very much ahead of its time. Since then she has published 4 practical and inspirational books with Pavilion and 2 nostalgic cookery/children's activity books with Hodder, as well as a vintage baking book for Jacqui Small. 

Her stunning images have been turned into a series of board books for children by US publisher Lerner/Millbrook and her photographs feature on postcards published by Woodmansterne. Through her own Yarnstorm Press she published a series of cultural guides to Britain's cities. Constantly creating, writing and thinking, Jane is planning yet more books.

HOW TO LOOK AT STAINED GLASS is a fresh, unstuffy guide to appreciating English stained glass through themes, patterns, designs, and effects from apples to zig zags. Published in May 2018 by IB Tauris, it covers all the major periods and styles from medieval to modern, Victorian to post-war, eighteenth century to Arts and Crafts, figurative to abstract, and examines the fascinating and evolving iconography of stained glass. 

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Praise for Jane Brocket
'Joyful to keep dipping into...with stylish wit and panache... I just love this book.' British Society of Master Glass Painters

'Jane Brocket is a great debunker and has a wonderfully straightforward approach to quilting' Charlotte Packer

'Like a warm hug...delightful...with a lot of humour, colour and insights into how enjoyable quilt-making can be.' Workshop on the Web

​'Beautifully styled...full of lots of ideas for things to explore in your own quilt-making' The Quilter

'Immensely useful...a boon to the church-crawler.' Church Times
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 Jane Brocket’s wonderfully researched book has made all of us in the office look at stained glass in a quite new way.' Persephone Books.