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Activities through 8-13-17

House Capuchin Shield2Discovered that we have our monthly potluck set for Eclipsapocalypse Weekend. Uh, no…. putting it off to 8/27! Also, no Herbs or Sewing on Saturday 8/19 or Project Day on Sunday 8/20. Not *even* going to try! So the only meetings this week are Cheese and Wine on Monday evening, (going to make Schizz again) and Thursday’s Sewing.

The final set

The week was quiet progress, but ended with an awesomely productive Herbs Workshop and then a *fun* project day with extra people! Marcus stopped by and dropped off Loren’s armor and some other things.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursday, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturday, 11am-1pm – Not this week!
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturday, 3-5pm – Not this week!
  • Loren in armor

    Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sunday, Noon to 6pm – Not this week!

  • Cheese & Wine – Monday evening 5-8pm.
  • Next Potluck – 8/27 Date change because of the Eclipsalypse!

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week – We got pix from Jay from last Saturday!

Arlys and Anja talked about the inkle loom we’re making for her, and various folks chimed in on the feast, asking about the menu, giving suggestions, asking for invites.

Sewing Time – Thursday …was Loren, Amy and Anja. Pincushions happened, which were mailed on Friday, then more pincushions happened and a needle blank.

Sewing Time – Saturday – …was just Anja, talking with this person and that person and working on pincushions. 🙂

Herb Bunch – Early in the week some harvesting got done and then on Saturday we got serious about it. Anja was planning on making some herb and cheese biscuits, so she got a lot of snips and bits for that, plus pulled 2 shallots, one of which got separated into 3 and then replanted. She also harvested the garlics, replanted the small bulbs, thinned the radishes and collected some greens from that. She discovered more bulblets once at the shop, so those went back into the ground Saturday evening.

Garlics

Once we were at the shop, Loren spent some time washing the harvested herbs while Anja and the Herb Bunch sorted, prepped and chopped, ending up with two cups of herbs. We ended up putting one cup into a bread loaf instead of biscuits and the other cupful in with barley for a pottage.

That’s the crumb of the bread with 1 cup of chopped herbs and 1/2 a cup of cheese added. It was delicious!

Pottage and bread herbs

More herbs – We got a lot done!

Project Day – …was just awesome even if we didn’t get a lot done!

Amy brought a wonderful trail mix for a snack and we made great inroads into it. Stella got to stop by on her way to the Blues Jam and told us about her visit with her Mom and we talked Feast entertainment and got her caught up on news from the last few weeks.

Anja was sewing by then and kept pecking away for the next 4 or 5 hours while Loren tended the shop.

>>>>>>>>>> A lotta pincushions! >>>>>>>>>>

A couple came in who turned out to be SCA from Stromgard and stayed for the rest of the afternoon, talking and discussing history, food and other things. We’ve invited them to the feast, too. Loren was working on his catapult, but we were having so much fun talking that no pictures happened but one!

Kaldorness Workshop Weekend (last weekend) – Kaldorness is in St. Helens Oregon – Anja taught at this one last year and her Laurel, Mistress Arlys, did this year.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

For the House records – Some books and other things

 

Funnies 

Tudor Sexting! http://www.tatler.com/article/tudor-sexting

Anja, Arlys(v), Jay (v), Amy, Loren, Herb Bunch (1), Stella, Doug & Jenn (Stromgard), Marcus

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 151+12 = 163 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 35 (plus 18 unfinished) pincushions, 5 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3522 handed off

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Page Created 8/6/17 & published 8/13/17 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 8/13/17

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Activities through 8-6-17

Hall walk-though and reservation is done. Pincushions, herbs and wood-working all happened. Fight practice achieved! Details below.

  • Cheese & Wine – Planning for Wednesday. Watch the Facebook group for time!
  • Anja carving

    Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Next Potluck – 8/20

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week – Aimee & Nick found a spinning wheel and some other things for us! There’re several extra parts for the wheel, plus a loom frame and some knitting needles and a few odds and ends. It looks like we have the standard pieces and we found an online owner’s manual so we’re going to try to see if we can get it up and running.

The Hall walk-through happened on Tuesday and the checks were handed off. Anja got pix. On Thursday we did some carving/sanding while a friend was there during the day.

Sewing Time

Thursday – Anja was the only one sewing, but we had 3 people there for at least a short while.

Saturday – Just Anja, but other than mending a flag it was all pincushions again.

Herb Bunch – …worked on preparing herbs for drying. No pix. Borage was the only unusual one, and we’re starting to get radishes.

Special Fight Practice – On Saturday, Loren and Jay headed for the Valley to go to a fight practice with Evan Burns and his group. They had a great time! The guys took a batch of the pickled mushrooms with them for the supper. Jay got pix and a vid, but the camera wasn’t cooperating.

Loren – ROAD TRIP!!!!!! My friend Jay (also a House Capuchin member) and I had the opportunity on Saturday to investigate reports that a mercenary barbarian horde had taken up residence in Coeur du Val, and were inviting people to come to their fight practice. Now, as is well known, you can never have too many barbarians around. They help make the nobles look good, and also give the nobles somewhere to go when they get bored with being noble and want to have some REAL fun. So off we went, and even though it’s a bit of a jaunt from the coast, it was way closer than any of the other alternatives. We had only a couple minor missed turns, with no real problems finding them.

Evan and Alek gave us the grand tour and showed us their armory, and told us a fair bit of their history and what they were about. I have to say that I was impressed. I’ve always liked Coeur du Val anyway, for a variety of reasons, and was not disappointed now. But the best part was that after all this they PUT US IN ARMOR, and we got to do some actual fighting practice! I haven’t had the chance to throw a shot in probably 25 years, and although I have always thought about getting back on the field, lack of time and equipment, and especially lack of ANY support for a fight practice that was close enough to drive to from the coast before it was already finished really got in the way. The Tuesday practice in Coeur du Val was theoretically close enough but mundane responsibilities interfered.

I had also had some concern that I might be too old, too out of shape, to actually get back in the game …. but when that helm slid back over my head, and my hand closed over that sword hilt, well, I could only think that this must have been what Theoden felt like when the spell was broken. And then they FED us, too!

These are folks that while they are serious about what they are doing with the Society, they have not forgotten that the main idea is that people should be having fun and making friends, not playing politics and making enemies. There is plenty much, and more, of the latter in the mundane world, we have no need to drag it into the Dream with us (even though that seems to be a few peoples favorite hobby). Evan, thank you, sir, for your gracious and openhanded hospitality. Today you made some friends.

Project Day

Anja started with a bay-wood spoon that she’s been ditzing with, since the carving, (all but the bowl), was complete and it needed to be sanded. Sanding got done, bowl got done, more sanding…. Loren was writing about the fight practice.

When Amy got there she brought a bunch of lucet cords that she had made for the largesse pile. We sat down and discussed fight practice and feast and then period versions of fairy tales and projects in process. Anja didn’t get much done on her projects because after the carving/sanding her hands quit and she really didn’t get back to projects until way late.

Miscellaneous pix

Music from the group Unholy Rackett – I can’t get these vids to load! So, their instagram link (where it’s all findable) is https://www.instagram.com/unholyrackett/ 

Links

Remember this clash of epochs? Anachronism, alright!

Well, it’s been immortalized…. A Runestone….

Funnies 

Aimee, Nick, Anja, Loren, Amy, Jay, Gogor (v)

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 151 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 45 pincushions, 5 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes finished except for bone needles, 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3510 handed off

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Page Created 7/30/17 & published 8/6/17 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 8/6/17

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Activities through 7-30-17

House Capuchin Shield2Productive week! Lots of things are happening with the Winter Feast (2/18/18) as in menu and trial runs on foods. More pincushions are going, including some that are intended for the changeover from Baron Finn to his successors. We saw some folks that we don’t usually get to, and they have wheels now, so

The current crop

we might see them more often.

Meetings are at the normal times this week, plus we have a hall walk-through on Tuesday, and we’re thinking to try again on bottle wine on Wednesday evening.

  • Loren working on a wooden animal

    Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 8/20

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week – Gudrun and Casey showed up on Tuesday for a visit and we talked feast and food and projects and such, at length. …and Anja sewed, which is surprising, of course. 🙂 They got to try the mushrooms. Casey actually thought they were decent and he hates mushrooms! Texture, apparently.

Isabeau sent Anja a photo of a seam treatment on a tunic she’s working on.

Food motif kettle cook

Gogor and Anja have been consulting about the feast menu for next February (and the date looks like 2/18/18!) They’ve got a pretty good one put together, based on early 1400’s foods from the various Slavic lands.

…and some embroidery by Anja. This is another pincushion, destined for Finn when he steps down as Dragon’s Mist’s Baron. She finished it early Wednesday morning and then, unsatisfied, because of mistakes, immediately started another and finished that Wednesday evening!

Sewing Time

Thursday – …was just Anja and Loren. Loren was sanding again, and Anja finished another pincushion for  Finn, not being satisfied with the first, and then worked on an “order” for the Dragon’s Mist Baronial change-over. They got filled and stitched on Friday.

Saturday – Pincushions got filled and a few dimpled.

Herb Bunch – Sorted herbs for drying, mostly thyme and oregano….

The Shallots, garlics and the parsleys are doing well, the leeks are awfully spindly. No clue why. Other veg are coming along. There’s reclaimed celery, carrot, leek and turnip, and radish and carrot from seed. Other herbs got prepped and put away and the ingredients for a bruise balm found.

Project Day

You can see the onions floating in the broth.

We started in the morning with editing pictures, but when Amy came a bit earlier than she’s been, we sat down with pincushions, her nailbinding and some sanding of wooden animals. We spent awhile talking about our winter feast, who’s doing toys, and other House business. After we had talked that all through, Anja went in back to set up another round of beef in wine…another trial run for one of the feast dishes. Loren pulled down the boxes of wooden toys & gnomes, since some of those are going to Sasha for him to work on at home.

Amy headed home early, too, to nurse her injured ankle, so Anja went off to get the inkle loom pattern that we’re doing for her Laurel worked out, and then she did more on pincushions while Loren was sanding. We also talked casting while we worked.

Miscellaneous pix

Miscellaneous pix from Stormgods last weekend, with permission from James Redbeard, photographer

Music

Music For A Tudor Feast, Trouvère Medieval Minstrels, 2010m Orange Dog Productionsm ASIN: B00TK92N8O

  1. The Hunt Is Up
  2. Bergerette
  3. The Boar’s Head Caro
  4. Can She Excuse
  5. Consort
  6. Blow Thy Horn Hunter
  7. La Volta
  8. Dance Of The Washerwomen
  9. Now Oh Now
  10. Double & Maltese Branles
  11. Galliard VII
  12. Flow My Tears
  13. Galliard II
  14. La Rosette
  15. Green Grow’th The Holly
  16. Ronde – Pour Quoy
  17. Lord Zouche’s Masque
  18. Madame D’Amours
  19. Morisco
  20. Les Quatre Branles
  21. It Was A Time When Silly Bees Could Speak
  22. Ronde III
  23. Pastime With Good Company
  24. Fortune My Foe

Links

This showed up on Thursday. It’s a VCR tape that someone did back in 1987! Omgs…. that was my first crown, ever! I remember that bout!…although that’s the one where Sash got into Loren’s goblet and got …plastered…and he’s a noisy drunk, even yet. ..and Steinie won the Crown!

Good Book!

The Craftsman’s Handbook, Cennino Cennini, Dover Art Instruction, Paper or Kindle Edition,  April 2, 2012, Amazon Digital Services LLC, ASIN: B00A3M1FJ0 – https://www.amazon.com/Craftsmans-Handbook-Dover-Art-Instruction-ebook/dp/B00A3M1FJ0/ref=pd_sim_351_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=SXPV3JFZDT6NJHYATAFQ

From the Back Cover – This is D. V. Thompson’s definitive English translation of Il Libro dell’Arte, an intriguing guide to methods of painting, written in fifteenth-century Florence. Embodying the secrets and techniques of the great masters, it served as an art student’s introduction to the ways of his craft.

Anyone who has ever looked at a medieval painting and marveled at the brilliance of color and quality of surface that have endured for 500 years should find this fascinating reading. It describes such lost arts as gilding stone, making mosaics of crushed eggshell, fashioning saints’ diadems, coloring parchment, making goat glue, and regulating your life in the interests of decorum—which meant shunning women, the greatest cause of unsteady hands in artists. You are told how to make green drapery, black for monks’ robes, trees and plants, oils, beards in fresco, and the proper proportions of a man’s body. (“I will not tell you about the irrational animals because you will never discover any system of proportion in them.”) So practical are the details that readers might be tempted to experiment with the methods given here for their own amusement and curiosity.
Today artists are no longer interested in specific directions on keeping miniver tails from becoming moth-eaten. The Craftsman’s Handbook, in which these are ordinary parts of the artist’s work, appears quaint and naïve to us. And that is much of its charm. But when we remember the magnificent mosaics, paintings, and frescoes these methods produced, the book takes on an even greater value as a touchstone to another age.

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Gudrun, Casey, Gogor(V), Amy

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 151 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 36 pincushions, 1 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes finished except for bone needles, 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3510 handed off

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Page Created 7/23/17 & published 7/30/17 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 7/30/17

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Activities through 7-23-17

House Capuchin Shield2This was one of the quietest weeks we’ve had in a long while. Just three of us doing stuff, although there were others who thought they were going to make it to meetings and things came up. It’s summer on the coast. Everyone is *way* too busy…. and tired. All meetings at the usual time this week.

  • Pickled mushrooms with some of the turnip.

    Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 8/20
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Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week – .…was all about cleaning up, adding wine to the mushroom pickle so that the added turnip was submerged, eating yummy leftovers and working on projects that got neglected on Sunday. The plants from Herbs went back home, watered. Pincushions got stitched and filled. No pix.

Cheese and Wine Workshop – We thought we might be able to decant and bottle on Wednesday evening, but no one else could make it, so we put it off again.

Sewing Time – Thursday sewing was just Anja, working on pincushions, but she went over to the fabric store across the street and got some black broadcloth to do backs on some of the pincushions that have been ordered. After that she worked on putting the buckle onto her Lion’s Strength belt that Finn made, but stitched it wrong 4 times and when the last time she sewed the buckle on upside-down, she hung it up for the time being.

Amy showed up on Friday evening and while Anja was stitching another couple of pouches for her tools, Amy gave some decorative knots a try. Didn’t work as well as she’d hoped, so she put it by for another time.

Thursday

Friday

Herbs – Not a lot this week. Hung some St. John’s Wort and ferns to dry, got some dried oregano prepped.

Project Day

We started with Loren making a oat/wheat bread and then trying out the mushroom pickles. They’re pretty good, but stronger than what we expected and the turnip pieces were “meh”. When Amy showed up she settled down with working out how to do nalbinding. She has a new book. Anja was working on pincushions and a pair of needlebooks and eventually some ironing. The needlebooks were for the two sewing kits that are mostly complete. Now all they need is the bone needles. We all sat and chatted and worked.

Edibles

Other stuff

Pincushions

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Magna Melodia – Medieval Music From The Time Of The Magna Carta, Trouvère Medieval Minstrels, 2015, Orange Dog Productions, ASIN: B00VDNZVQQ – https://www.amazon.com/Magna-Melodia-Medieval-Music-Carta/dp/B00VDNZVQQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500860672&sr=8-1&keywords=magna+melodia

  1. Can Vei La Lauzeta / La Dousa Votz
  2. L’Autrier Jost’un Sebissa
  3. Kalenda Maia
  4. Congaudentes Iubilemus
  5. Natali Regis Glorie
  6. Fort Chose Avias
  7. Rassa Tan Creis / Mon Chan Fenisc
  8. Anni Novi Circulus
  9. Omnis Mundus Iocundetur
  10. Orientis Partibus
  11. Ex Regali
  12. Rex Tua Nolo Munera
  13. Cum Doctorum
  14. Abacuc / Nuntium Vobis
  15. Volez Vous Que Je Vous Chant
  16. Parti De Mal
  17. Dance
  18. Foweles In The Frith / Man Mei Longe
  19. Verbum Patris Umanatur
  20. Mirie It Is

Links – War! From above! 

Mildew, A perennial problem in AnTir with our mild, wet winters – http://midtown.net/dragonwing/col0211.htm

Funnies 

Anja, Amy, Loren

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 151 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 31 pincushions, 1 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes finished except for bone needles, 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3510 handed off

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Page Created 7/16/17 & published 7/23/17 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 7/23/17

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Activities through 7-16-17 Potluck Coronation

House Capuchin Shield2Moar War photos, plus Coronation! Mushroom pickle happened and a potluck (oh, the food!) and more pincushions and such. Pickle will be tried next week after it’s had time to steep. This coming week is all normal stuff.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 8/20

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week – The un-molding of the latest incarnation of schiz happened and some sewing. As folks were posting War photos, Anja found a seriously cool pouch design (pix below) and started one. The leek buckets went home and got watered, sanding of a goblet kept going and pincushions kept appearing in the largesse drawer. Anja’s going to go over those and decide which are going for largesse and which she’s going to keep for sale, though.

People started posting War pix on Monday and Anja saved out some cool ones, mostly of folks she knows.

Some other flours got purchased or made, early in the week. Rye and barley are not spendy in the bulk section and oat…well, we had a huge bag of oatmeal that was the 2nd bag of which we’ve eaten 1/3 of the first… 🙂 So flour happened from that on Tuesday night and bread for the Sunday potluck

Cheese and Wine Workshop – The cheese got unmolded on Monday and then put by for the potluck, since we wanted fried cheese again. 🙂 (Moar pix below in the potluck stuff)

Sewing Time – Amy was there both days along with Loren and Anja, although Loren is sanding. On Thursday the box of goodies for Sport of Kings got put together and pincushions made. On Saturday, more pincushions and Amy learned how to make sachets.

Thursday

Saturday

Herb Bunch – We started with going through some herbals that both of us have, talking about sources for plants, whether to wild-craft, grow or buy, mostly. After that we worked on re-potting some herbs and succulents that were getting pot-bound, got the next step done on the rose sugar, then processed fennel seed. We didn’t get any pictures! …so I added one of  ladies gathering mint from the Tacuinum Sanitatis. …and then got two on Sunday.

Project Day – Kinda started Saturday night as Loren and Anja started cooking. A pea/barley pottage, beef in wine and a root veg stew cooked overnight. The pickled mushrooms got started Sunday morning (although they’re not ready for eating, yet). Anja went to get some heavier fabric for pincushion back and the fabric store wasn’t open, so grumpy Anja, so she went to the Chocolate Frog, bought some truffle bites and…. happy Anja!

One of our Herb Bunch was here when she got back and then got going on the mushrooms after a few minutes. Eventually those were in the fridge and the press of the food prep happened.

We had a great feast, with a couple of guests and Jay actually managed to get here! We haven’t seen him in awhile. We all ended up stuffed and lots of stories were told. Not a single thing happened on projects, though….

Jay might be able to start getting armor together soon and he and Amy were making plans to get to Fight Practice so Amy can work on marshalling and Jay learn fighting.

Potluck Menu 

1st course

  • Oat and wheat bread – Loren
  • Butter – Loren
  • Garlic butter – (from storage in the freezer from a previous feast)
  • Fried Cheese – Anja and Loren – Schiz (made last week), sliced and fried in butter
  • Olive plate – Loren – Olives in vermouth, black and green olives
  • Stuffed Mushrooms – Jay and Loren – Mushroom caps, cheese
  • White wine – (leftovers from cooking)
  • Red wine – Courtney
  • Burgundy – (leftovers from cooking)

2nd course

  • Pease/Barley pottage – Anja – dried peas, pearl barley, caraway, onion, carrots, salt
  • Beef in wine – Anja – Angus beef, burgundy, mushrooms, salt, caraway – gravy of butter, rice flour and broth from the beef
  • Vegetable Stew – Anja – Turnip, spinach, carrot, rutabaga, celery, onion, lovage, plus misc greens, salt, caraway
  • Salad – Amy
  • Sekanjabin – Loren and Amy – Mint (harvested and prepped by Anja), Honey (local), vinegar, sugar, ice

3rd course

  • Molasses Cookies – Amy
  • Comfits

Pickled Mushrooms – We had less than 2 pounds of mushrooms to start, then 8 caps went for stuffing and a lot of stems into the veg and beef, so the recipe was halved. Also dried ginger and whole mace were not obtainable at the time we started this experiment, so we used dried. Horseradish was subbed for the pepper because of Anja’s allergy.

We washed the mushrooms Saturday night and left them to dry a bit, then started them with salt on Sunday morning. They needed to lose liquid. Since we could only run one burner at a time we did the ‘shrooms first, mostly over medium heat, then started the pickle broth which was wine, rather than vinegar. Drawing the liquid took time., at least an hour, maybe 1 1/2 hours. After that they were drained and set onto a towel while the pickle broth was going. Loren sterilized a jar and the mushrooms went in and then the pickle broth. It went in hot because of timing. A turnip got added after the feast, so’s to try that in the wine pickle.

Original Recipe (edited for length)

Pickled Mushrooms – Mar11by Mistress Leoba of Lecelade

TO PICKLE MUSHROOMS
Take your Buttons, clean ym with a spunge & put ym in cold water as you clean ym, then put ym dry in a stewpan & shake a handfull of salt over ym, yn stew ym in their own liquor till they are a little tender; then strain ym from ye liquor & put ym upon a cloath to dry till they are quite cold. Make your pickle before you do your Mushrooms, yt it may be quite cold before you put ym in. The pickle must be made with White-Wine, White-Pepper, quarter’d Nutmeg, a Blade of Mace, & a Race of ginger.

Ingredients

1.5kg mushrooms 1 tsp white pepper corns
500mL white wine 1/4 of a whole nutmeg
approx. 1/2 cup of salt 1/2 tsp mace
1 piece dried ginger

Method

In a mortar and pestle, roughly crush the pepper corns and mace. Using a grater, grate the ginger and the nutmeg (grate a whole nutmeg until you have used a quarter of it).

Put the spices and the wine in a pot and bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool completely.

Wash the mushrooms and remove the stalks.

Put the mushrooms in a heavy bottomed pan, then throw the salt over them. Heat the mushrooms well and cook, stirring frequently, until the mushrooms have coloured and shrunk considerably. A lot of liquid will leach out of them.

Strain the mushrooms, and put on a towel so they can dry and cool.

When both the mushrooms and pickling wine are completely cool, put the mushrooms into a sterilised jar and pour over the pickling liquid. If there is any spice residue, pack this on top. Ensure the mushrooms are completely covered by the liquid.

Keep the jar of mushrooms in a cool, dark place and leave to steep – the longer they steep the better.

Notes

Lady Fettiplace would not have had access to fresh ginger, and if you can find whole dried ginger it’s a revelation. I found some in an Indian grocers and it smells incredible.

Mace and nutmeg come from the same plant, Myrstica fragrans. Nutmeg is the seed in the middle of the fruit, and mace is a lacy membrane that surrounds this seed. Even though they come from the same plant, they have quite different tastes, and you can’t really substitute extra nutmeg for mace.

You will lose a lot of volume from the mushrooms as you are stewing them in the salt. We lost over 600g of weight – at the end of the process, we had 830g of mushrooms after starting out with 1.5kg.

Further Reading

Click on the links below to buy direct from The Book Depository.
Spurling, Hilary (2011). Elinor Fettiplace’s Receipt Book.

Miscellaneous pix – Project Ideas

Miscellaneous pix – War

Miscellaneous pix – Coronation

Music

The Renaissance Album by Windham Hill Records, Label: Windham Hill Records, ASIN: B019GRFAFC – https://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-Album-Windham-Hill-Records/dp/B019GRFAFC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1500237499&sr=8-3&keywords=the+renaissance+album+windham+hill

Links – After our period, but likely the same recipes.

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Amy, Herb Bunch (2), Jay

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 138+13 = 151  plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 28 pincushions, 1 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 3 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Sent to SoK – 1 blackworked pouch, two blackworked pincushions and one sewing kit with a bone needle in a bamboo case. (13 pieces)
  • Total as a Household = 3510 handed off

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Activities through 7-9-17

House Capuchin Shield2Pea flour in the bread may have been the most exciting part of our week! Green bread…. We did have things going on all week and Isabeau stopped by for a visit. Two new people in  the Herbs Workshop means stuff got done there, too. Sewing and sanding happened. Moar cheese happened late on Project Day.

We’re hoping for a cheese or two this week and we have people agitating to do some wine things, so maybe…. And potluck on Sunday!

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 7/16

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

A few War pix – All by Stacey Kelley

Early Week

The get-together at the shop on Monday included House Capuchin people who talked to some new folks about what all we do. Loren talked armor with the one guy who seems to be pretty

serious. They all want to get involved and we’re hoping that we can get a fight practice out here at some point. Sasha actually managed to be here and is hoping to be able to come down more often. A package of fabric from Lady Emma showed up with some really lovely pieces (in the Sewing Time section). Two pincushions got stitched. Loren grabbed a spatula whose handle was really rough and went to town on it, so Anja will quit ripping up her hands when she’s cooking with it.

Amor is working on knapping and making knives. Here’s a set of pix of some of what he’s been doing. …plus a pic of Puka being cute….

Sewing Time – …ended up happening on Wednesday, not Thursday, since on Wednesday Isabeau was here and no one showed on Thursday. Anja steadily stitched on a variety of cushions, mostly previously cut, some just needing dimples, some sewn up, but needing fill and dimples and then went on to stitching up more. Anja had cut 4 of the calico biscornu and stitched up one. Isabeau was interested and after pulling out a set of the blocks stitched one, start-to-finish, in the afternoon! Anja turned, filled and blind-stitched it, but Isabeau had one to take home along with the fish one that Anja had filled early on.

…and Saturday sewing was just Anja so she worked on some very mundane projects.

Herb Bunch – …has two new people who got a lot done during the couple of hours that we had. Anja had harvested spearmint, lemon balm, bergamot, and basil that morning so they learned how to tie those to hang dry. After that we processed some stevia, lemon and regular thyme and packed away some dried oregano, plantain and a few other things. We added petals to the rose sugar and talked about that and how it’s used in cookery. We started a batch of pea flour that Loren and Anja finished during the afternoon, since it was horribly loud and we couldn’t stay in the room with it as it was grinding! Finally we got dirt into the leek buckets and got a set of seeds planted. Quite a lot of progress! They’re planning to be back next week.

Pea flour bread – We’d been reading about adding pea or bean flour in period to bread to stretch it, and how it was made, so we decided to try it with a relatively modern recipe to see what the effect was. First we had to make the flour. We had green split peas and ran them in a food processor. Next we had to sift to get the flour. Then we added some to the regular bread recipe. Anja had seen that replacing 1 cup of the bread flour with pea flour was about right. Loren decided to get it wet to start, rather than leaving it dry on the off chance that some of the bigger pieces (divots in the sifted stuff) might stay crunchy if he didn’t.

So Sunday morning, he got the yeast and liquid proofing, then the pea flour went in, then the regular flour and the bacon grease that he uses instead of oil. It sat for a little and then he started the bread maker. He said it seemed “soupy” so he added 3 TBSP of flour.

After the dough ball was “riz'”, Loren laughed as he started the cycle to knead it a little longer. “It hissed! I heard it hiss!” After that it was set in a pan and greased before going into the oven to rise again.

Green bread…. 🙂

Project Day – Otherwise Loren was sitting and sanding on a cup. He got the plate done earlier in the week, but this cup is taking awhile. Anja was sewing. Amy showed up and we talked about cheese and bread and then got to try some of the pea flour bread. Green????

…and then late in the day….Amy had already headed home…. we made schiz…. this time the experiment was with using powdered spices (thyme (1 tsp) and garlic powder (2 Tbsp). …and it ended up with just Anja working on it since Loren crashed out on the couch for most of the time! We didn’t get the equipment set up right for the mold and it was top-heavy enough to bail out a couple of times, but we finally got it. Anja was going to try making ricotta with the whey, but she was too tired, finally, so it landed in the freezer. The cheese went into the fridge and will be pulled in the morning.

Links – Tudor Monastery Farm 

Music –  

 

Flower of Chivalry: Tranquil Medieval Music, 2006, Martin Souter and The Hilliard Ensemble, Conductor: Various, Composer: Henry VIII, Guillaume Dufay, Martin Codax, Label: The Gift Of Music, ASIN: B000FIMHOY – https://www.amazon.com/Flower-Chivalry-Tranquil-Medieval-Music/dp/B000FIMHOY/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1499646450&sr=1-1&keywords=flower+of+chivalry

A YouTube playlist of the music.

 

Funnies 

An exchange on Facebook

Joe Cook-Giles (7/9/17) – I’m really happy that Seamus O’Caellaigh studies poisons within our period of history. Why?
Because it’s a dying art.

Comments

Joyce Jocetta Thrushleigh Baldwin – Ow.
Laurel Grasmick-Black – BOOOOOOOOO
Joe Cook-Giles – Don’t be jealous o’ my boogie.
Seamus O’Caellaigh – Ohh Joe you Kill me
Crystal Lin Smithwick – He’d make a killing in modern times.
Marsha Mc – Of corpse it is!
Susan Mayer – As opposed to cochineal, which is a dyeing art.

Anja, Loren, Sasha, Amy, Isabeau, Herb Bunch(2)

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 138  plus 4 pouch, 1 embroidered pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 24 pincushions, 1 embroidered pincushion, 1 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 4 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3498 handed off

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Activities through 7-2-17

House Capuchin Shield2Pretty much all the talk this week was about prepping and packing for War, and on Sunday folks started leaving for the event. Stella is planning on going and Amy wants to do a day trip, but otherwise we’re all nailed down working.

Spoons, etc.

House members are getting together at the shop on Monday night for the Waldport Fireworks, but other than that, there’s nothing unusual planned for the week, just more “stuff”.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 7/16

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week – Started with clean-up as usual but by Tuesday Amy was working on trying to lucet on her fingers, Anja was doing more embroidery and sewing and Loren was making a bamboo needlecase for an already-made bone needle.

Cheese and Wine Workshop – Just a few pix this time from the day and some from Sunday. We tried molding the Schiz recipe.

Sewing Time, Thursday – Jay and a buddy got here not long after Sewing Time was supposed to start. We talked a lot about food rather than sewing, therefore, but one of the things was that he wants to start on a tunic for himself.

Sewing Time, Saturday – Loren’s been working on refinishing some of the myrtlewood pieces that we were gifted with last year. One plate is done (going to try for a better pic) and another is getting close. Since Loren was woodworking, Anja got out her tools after finishing the spoon on the left, split some more baywood and started the butter paddle that’s just to the right of the carving knife.

Herb Bunch – Worked on putting away dried herbs, but also talked about hemlock cone development. …and made rose sugar, afterwards.

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Unstacked

Project Day – …started with checking on the cheese. It took a good solid whack with Anja’s come-along to get it out of the mold, but we got it, sliced it and later fried and ate it. Anja was carving. Loren made a cord container for Amy and was sanding. Amy headed out early and Anja was online talking Feast with Gogor for quite some time. We’ve got a menu and are starting to find recipes for some of the dishes that we don’t know how to make, yet. We ended the day tasting the strawberry cordial, which didn’t turn out as well as the last. 😦 Well, we’ll get there!

Possible Winter Feast Menu 

Day

  • Noon – Breads/butters
  • 1pm – Lunch – Fried cheese, fried saukraut with black bread
  • 2pm – Caviar with caraway rye and hard-boiled eggs
  • 3pm – Hot crab
  • 4pm – Pickled Herring and add pickles to the breads

5pm – 1st course

  • Borscht for the horde
  • Small amount chicken soup
  • Breads

6pm – Main course

  • Caraway pork roast with brined apples
  • Beef stew with root veg and cabbage
  • Baked salmon with salted lemons
  • Baked fowl (Duck? Goose?)with brandied cherries
  • Saffron rice
  • Some other veg or kasha

Sweets, afters

  • Kolacki
  • Plum vareniki or knedliky
  • Fruit in Kvass?
  • Cookie Rings

Drinkables

  • Kvass
  • Beer
  • Mead
  • Mint water
  • Tea

Music 

Pleasures Of The Royal Courts – David Munrow/Early Music Consort of London, Christopher Hogwood, November 1, 2005, Nonesuch, ASIN: B001229HPE – https://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Courts-Christopher-Hogwood-Consort/dp/B001229HPE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1498628008&sr=8-2&keywords=pleasures+of+the+royal+courts+David+Munrow

 

A Facebook friend who lives in Pardubice and her family. 

Andrea Porvazníková with Lada Vančišinová and Jakub Vančišin  at Červený Kameň Hrad.

Overall Pic from the Festival of Forgotten Crafts (Festival Zabudnutých Remesiel 2017) at Červený Kameň Hrad, Casta, Slovakia

More on the castle here: http://hradcervenykamen.sk/

More on the festival here: http://hradcervenykamen.sk/?p=1340

Funnies 

Amy, Anja, Loren, Jay (and friend), Gogor (V)

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 137  plus 4 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124), 1 pouch, 1 embroidered pouch, 12 pincushions, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case
  • Total as a Household = 3497 handed off

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Activities through 6-25-17 Potluck

House Capuchin Shield2Not as much as usual got done this week. Things were a little chaotic and folks had a bunch of other chores to do and then some of our energy went into the potluck which was yum!

This coming week all meetings are at the usual time. A Cheese Night is possible on Wednesday or Thursday.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Drying rosebuds (Anja)

    Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm

  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 7/16 (may be just a snack potluck)

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week – Anja worked on finishing the biscornu that she started last week and got it done Tuesday evening, when she had time to concentrate. Loren was working on sanding. That one plate just feels wonderful, being myrtlewood. The sanding sponges are really proving out. They’re tougher than sandpaper, only clogging up rather than wearing down as fast. We got a couple of different grits from them. https://www.sciplus.com/p/220GRIT-FINISHING-SPONGES_58169

Sewing Time – Thurs – ….wasn’t much of a much. No one was there but Anja, so she spent the time sorting supplies and cleaning up some of her project pile, then after she was done, Amy showed up for a bit and Loren, Amy and Anja talked. Most of the Thursday/Saturday sewing happened outside of the workshop time.

Herb Bunch – Most of this was during the week rather than workshop time, as garden stuff needs to be done when it’s time. Photos also need to be taken during the week of the garden stuffs as they grow towards harvest.

So thyme, lovage, leeks and parsley were harvested for the pies. Oregano was set aside to dry. Ditto rose petals. Mint liqueur was strained for another time. A bucket was obtained for the new batch of leeks.

Project Day – …began with setting up the lentil pottage that got forgotten Saturday night and then going on to setting up the pies. By noon the gravy was bubbling away and they were almost ready. We were hunting a small pie dish to make a individual one for the lady whose oven we were going to use, but didn’t manage to find one, so ended up with two pies (recipe below) which Loren took off to go do.

Lucet

Amy showed up just as that was all ready, so she and Anja sat down with handwork, Amy working with a lucet and Anja filling pincushions. Stella got there a while after and we all sat and talked while the pies were finishing, then started eating once Loren was back.

We ate until we were all groaningly full and still kept going back for “one more bite”! It was all tasty. Not really all period, but a yummy feast! (pix below the menu) …and then we sortof sat there looking at each other wishing for a bit more room, so took some leftovers home. 🙂

Potluck Menu

Food motif kettle cook

1st course

  • Cheese balls (from the failed mozz) – Anja
  • Pickled eggs – Stella
  • Black Olives – Loren
  • Vermouth Olives – Jeanne
  • Peanut butter pretzel bites – Amy

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The table

2nd course

  • Chicken, leek and mushroom pie – Anja and Loren
  • Beef Stroganoff – Stella
  • Salad – Amy
  • Bread – Loren
  • Butter – Loren
  • Lentil Pottage – Anja
  • Mustard – Loren and Anja (omgs…on the pretzel bites!)

3rd course

  • Lemon pound cake, mini muffins – Kristie
  • Almond poppyseed cake – Anja
  • Comfits – Leslie

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Chicken, Leek and Mushroom Pie recipe – Chicken pie is an old standby especially in English cookery. This is not from a period recipe but made from descriptions.

  • 2 deep dish frozen pie shells
  • 2 “lid” of pre-made pie crust
  • FOR THE FILLING
  • 2 lbs cooked chicken meat (measured before cooking)
  • 8 oz sliced fresh mushrooms
  • 1 lg, 2 small leeks, finely sliced, leaves, scapes and all
  • stick butter
  • 3 heaping tbsp spelt flour
  • 3 cups chicken broth – made from the chicken meat as it cooked with celery & vegetables, and then cooled and degreased.
  • Handful chopped lovage
  • 1/2 tsp fresh thyme leaves
  • 1/2 tsp fresh lemon thyme leaves
  • 1 tsp fresh oregano
  • 2 garlic scapes
  • Salt
  • 1 beaten egg for glazing

Makes 2 large 6″/15cm individual pies or combine into one pie using a 1 pint pie dish.

  • Dice the cold chicken meat and add to pie shells.
  • Add the mushrooms to the pie shells.
  • Snip some chives and add to the heap.
  • Chop the leeks discarding only dry or brown leaf parts
  • strip thyme and oregano from stems, chop lovage.
  • Melt butter in a frypan over a medium heat, add the flour and stir well to incorporate all the flour into the butter. You should have a really thick paste. Using a hand whisk, slowly add the chicken stock, whisking all the time until a smooth gravy is created.
  • Add the leeks, lovage, oregano and thyme to the sauce.
  • Stir well.
  • Turn heat down to medium, cover and let simmer 5-10 minutes
  • Pour over filling.
  • Crimp lid over the top, then poke ventilation holes.
  • Smear with beaten egg
  • PreHeat the oven to 350°F. Place a heavy cookie sheet or baking stone on the middle shelf.
  • Set the pie dish/es onto the heated baking sheet in the oven and bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour, rotating pies 180 degrees at 25 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown and the filling bubbling. If edges begin to burn, cover with foil or edge covers.
  • Serve hot or fridge to cool completely if serving cold. Fridge all leftovers.

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Amy, Stella, Jay (V)

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 137  plus 4 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124), 1 pouch, 1 embroidered pouch, 9 pincushions, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case
  • Total as a Household = 3497 handed off

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Activities through 6-18-17 Investiture

Quiet weeks are nice, but not eventing is not. 😦 Investiture must have been a blast from the sound of things.

House Capuchin Shield2Things kept on being made all week. Various projects got finished. The foxglove harvest happened. Materials that had dived into strange places got pulled back out. Cheese happened.

…and we have a new Prince and Princess of the Summits. Their Alpine Highesses, Durin and Cerridwen, and the previous Prince Tjorkill and Princess Alina to either side.

Pincushions

Photo by Kimberley Nickerson from the Summits Facebook group

…and then Seamus, the inimitable Sea Moose, about Investiture…. “Home safe from a great Investiture. Any event where I get to threaten poison is a win. Thank you Corvaria.
Anja said, “Sounds like a story…”
and Seamus replied, “I, Seamus O’Caellaigh, Alpine Scholar, to attest and affirm that Ceridwin is the true and rightful heir. Any that think otherwise, *Throw Gauntlet* should pick up this Gauntlet, BUT be warned, my weapon is knowledge. I know more poisons than you, and I will not be making you an Antidote!” (swiped from Facebook with Seamus’ permission)

…and the balls were slimy and wet, so they got pull out of the whey

So this week all meetings are at the regular times. Yes, Cheese will happen, but Tuesday night this week, at 5pm. Don’t forget Potluck this coming Sunday!

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Tuesday night this week, 5pm. (irregularly scheduled)

  • Next Potluck – 6/25

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here:  https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/  and new one here:  https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week

We heard from Gudrun and Jay early in the week and Willow and Kaleb came in to discuss what all’s been going on with House stuff while they were busy with the school year. Willow is offering to pick up some of the Newport members on Sundays so they can make it to House meetings. Loren was busily making more needles and Anja more pincushions. The pictures from the week before prompted requests for some specific ones by various people. 🙂

A note went up on Facebook about Amy’s copious quantities of mug tags from the largesse coordinator for Their Alpine Highnesses,  Alicia Van De Kop, “Mug tags! House Capuchin donated so many and they are so clever!”

…and she’s done another hat.

The stick horses went to His Alpine Highness on Tuesday. The sun was too bright….

 

A new SCA meme

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Their Royal Majesties of An Tir, King Styrkarr Jarlskald and Queen Dagrun Stjarna, their official picture…. 🙂 Gotta love these folks!

Cheese and Wine Workshop – So the mozzarella experiment got tried. It took awhile to collect the tools, but once we got started it went pretty fast. It didn’t end up with the right texture, though. 😦 It took about 2 hours, start to finish, counting letting the whey cool enough to put it in the fridge. Best guess on the texture probably is that the cheese didn’t get/stay hot enough to stretch and something happened also with the curdling too soon. Bad measurement?

Sewing Time – Thursday – Anja got her gift thingie done and worked on a couple of pincushions. One of Loren’s needles went into the gift thingie. Anja did some more cutting out and embroidery Thursday evening and Friday.

Sewing Time – Saturday …turned into talking to one possible new person and then a lot of cutting out of pieces for pincushions which you can see starting to be sewn below. Iow, nothing got finished on Saturday. ….other than pincushion filling….

Herb Bunch – During the early week it was time to get the foxglove harvested.

Project Day – Amor has been busy up in Eskalya. He’s mostly working on learning how to make arrowheads. Loren got a Father’s Day prezzie that he’s going to start playing with. He sat down with some plates and bowls that needed sanding and Anja had a pincushion that she’d been getting ready over the last couple of days.

Sewing happened

Miscellaneous pix

Links

A seriously cool late period jar – http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/198941

gallery

 

Funnies 

Jay (v), Gudrun (v), Loren, Willow, Kaleb, Anja, Amy, 2 new people

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Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 111+26  plus 4 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124), 1 pouch, 1 embroidered pouch, 6 pincushions, 25 pouches for block-printing
  • Total as a Household = 3496 handed off

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Page Created 6/10/17 & published 6/18/17 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 6/18/17

 

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