Alison Kannon is an avid costumer and a rabid historical martial arts and fencing enthusiast. She has been studying and teaching Sixteenth Century European martial arts since 2001. She is an enthusiastic historical re-enactor and created Elizabethanmafia.com in order to share her research of the fashion, culture, and martial arts of Early Modern England.
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Tag Archives: The Jacket Project
Pictures are up!
Current pictures of the Jacket project are finally up! Check em out! And for all you patience please enjoy bonus pictures of our Christmas tree.
November Jacket Update and Future Project Plans
I’m officially back from one of the most lovely holidays I have had in a very long time. We spent our Thanksgiving up at the family farm in Como, NC. Don’t worry, I don’t really expect anyone else to know … Continue reading
Posted in Embroidery, PerCoFiMo, Sewing
Tagged Embroidery, Flanders Gown, PerCoFiMo, Project, Sewing, The Jacket Project
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How to Make Progress On Those Large Projects We All Have
My apologies for being absent Friday. I was feeling a bit under the weather. The good news though is that I’m fairly certain it had more to do something I ate than any seasonal bug and after taking some time this weekend to … Continue reading
October Blackwork Jacket Update and Assessing Projects for PerCoFiMo
With October ending and November beginning I wanted to take some time update everyone on my Jacket Project progress, asses the status of my PerCoFiMo projects, set some priorities*, and estimate the amount of time I think each will take … Continue reading
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Tagged Embroidery, PerCoFiMo, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project
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Website Updates
Yesterday I spent sometime updating my website: Reorganizing: One of the big things that I did was reorganize the menu at the top of the page. I’ve removed the Weekly Inspiration feature. It wasn’t really working with the site the … Continue reading
New Projects: Training Manuals and a Flanders Gown
When I was baroness I had several projects I really wanted to pursue but I put on the back burner due to time constraints. Among there projects were training manuals for Silver and Swetnam’s systems of defense. Now I am … Continue reading
Posted in Fighting, Sewing
Tagged Embroidery, Fighting, Flanders Gown, George Silver, HMA, Joseph Swetnam, Project, Sewing, The Jacket Project
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September jacket progress (with musings on finishing old projects)
Since I posted pictures of my jacket on the 21st I haven’t really talked more about it. As we are at the end of the month I wanted to post an update of the progress so far. Sadly, it’s not … Continue reading
Pictures: Midnight at the Oasis 2009 and my jacket!
This past weekend was Midnight at the Oasis and I had a great time. I will be posting thoughts on my fighting later today or tomorrow but until then I have pictures from the event (mostly of court) as well … Continue reading
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Tagged Embroidery, Events, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project
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Into the Weekend
It’s not often that I have a three day weekend all to myself so when those little opportunities come along I like to take full advantage of them. This weekend will be no exception. While it may sound indulgent I … Continue reading
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Tagged Embroidery, Excercise, Project, The Jacket Project, Weekend
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Pictures, Articles, and Return Features! Oh My!
Work continues. I worked on several projects this weekend. I didn’t get a whole lot accomplished on any one of them but over all I enjoyed myself immensely and got quite a bit done overall. Sadly I had to abandon … Continue reading
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Tagged Forehead Cloth, Pictures, Project, The Jacket Project, Website
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