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The meeting of Hrafnar that was postponed for Trothmoot last week happened last night instead. While it's our typical practice to do the "Midsummer Blot" that we published in the Troth's Book of Blóts, for sundry logistical reasons I pruned it down to an informal three-round sumbel with a Sunna-dedicated first round. Fleshy dainties were seared over charcoal in her honor, accompanied by Heiðrun, a local, commercially produced, sparkling mead.
Now, I've mocked their label in the past for having Sleipnir on the front because Heiðrun is a goat--a very nice little black goat whose teats produce Valhö's mead, to which I can safely say, "Wow, that's some goat!" But still! Not a knotwork-legged stallion by any stretch.
However, I found out from a friend of the meadery owner that Sleipnir is on the bottle because the owner can't find a worthy goat picture.
Clearly, someone who can draw his or her way out of a paper bag can fix this.
Clearly, that person is not me.
I suspect--but cannot state--that such art might earn some mead in exchange. It jolly well should, Gebo being what it is, but I can't say for certain. If someone might be interested in a barterish commission, get in touch with David Carlson, who Knows That Guy, or me, who knows David Carlson who Knows That Guy. Things, I should think, could be worked out.
Next month's Hrafnar meeting will be the Land Spirits' Picnic. We'll gather at Greyhaven and carpool our way to our other favorite pic-a-nic spot, up in Tilden Park.
And now, "below the fold":
Diana Is Safe in Greece and Misses You, Too
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dpaxson and jon_decles are safe and sound in Greece for a month-long trip. Once she found out that neither of their phones would work there (She has Credo, he has Verizon), we dug up these guys online. I was a bit suspicious at first, but a quick trawl through others' opinions reassured us that all was on the up-and-up. I can confirm that it does work as advertised, too, as she called me with it. She reports that the terrain and climate are rather like Central and Southern California, although the mountains are a bit more "knobbly and interesting". jon_decles (a Hellenic Recon) has now visited two temples (Artemis and Poseidon) and is a happy man.
There will be pictures, or I will be Most Horribly Vexed.
Fiber Fluff
So, yesterday, I had to visit the Amoral Admen's computers. These are in Milpitas, which isn't dangerously close to Purlescence Yarns in Sunnyvale, CA, but closer than where I live.
Still, when I'd been by, I noticed they had Blue Moon Fiber Arts Raven Clan colorways, aka "taste the black rainbow", although they were very sadly lacking in the two for which I had a MIGHTY NEED--their blood and black Valkyrie (IT IS NAMED VALKYRIEZOMGs) and the blue and black Haida (!!blue!! and !!black!!). They said they would have these in June.
On my way away from Visiting the Computers, I phoned over there.
They'd gotten Haida in that day. Weren't going to put it out 'til tomorrow.
I sniffled and asked if, in the name of good eco-conscious practice, I might buy one now, as I was all in the neighborhood and everything. They said yes!
SO!
I toddled on in and bought two skeins of each (one skein makes one pair of socks)*, and an LED light that wraps around one's ear like aBorg laserpen Bluetooth headset. I am now know there by name, between "Must have raven yarn!" and "got any spinnable linen" and other places where the paganism hits the fiber arts. FIBERY DOOM! Also, as I had a selection in each colorway, I can say that yes, the amount of not black in your skein of Raven Clan will vary on a skein by skein basis, as one might expect from handpaint. However, do expect mostly black with only sometimes not-black, and the not-black is still pretty close to black. Valkyrie is a warm black occasionally surfacing to burgundy or rust (let's not lie--it's blood) and Haida is a cool black occasionally surfacing to midnight and similar.
In short? This is a whole rainbow of black. It would be more black, but then it would need to have that carbon nanofiber shag in. It's BLACK.
But back to Purlescence, I should mention that they will have a table in the dealers' room at Pantheacon. Be very afraid...
In other purchases here and at Article Pract, I picked up some white sock yarn AND Cat Bordhi's Magical Pathways for Sock Knitters, Vol. One.
Cat Bordhi is a hacker--and I use that term in the old, respectful sense.
She has hacked socks, and the results are awesome.
* - Until the weather is consistently cooler enough to work on devotional shawls, a Certain Sweater, and so on, it's socks and berets FTW.
Trothstuff
Trothmoot was awesome, and you should have been there.walkyrja is now the Steer, and it is generally agreed that the Trains Will Run on Time, as she is ably skilled as an executor and an administrator.
Not to say that she's captaining Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer (the Executor), just that she has Plans, and they are Firm, and they are Executed with a Swiftness not unlike Mjolnir bringing it to a Thurs-skull.
walkyrja is All Out of Bubble Gum, and good thing for the Troth that she is.
OK! *swap hats to: Assistant Editor, Idunna*
Idunna 76 is the first to feature a first four-color cover (in some of our early ones, the editor might hand-color, say, Idunna'a apple, but this? is COLOR, exactly unlike the aforementioned sock yarn). We were holding off on making great mention of this until it was, you know, in the mail, but now it should have gotten around the country, and the Shope's Office is giddy as schoolgirls about it, despite that we're all three too old for it, and one of us has the wrong plumbing. GIDDY I tell you.
The Budget allows us to do this twice a year, but if really awesome artwork keeps coming, we--the Troth's mighty revenue engine--may ask for an increase and roll this more often. Still, the semi-gloss paper and color process adds more than a dollar per copy to the production costs, so we are cautious and prudent and all that good jazz.
*swaps hat to: Assistant ICO*
(Which makes me think of "Iko Iko" and now I can has earworm BUT I DIGRESS)
I am cautiously happy about the progress that's going on with regards to the Troth website and the underlying database. If anyone has the right to be guarded about this, it'd be me.
BUT!
I'm willing to admit that this time, it just might work.
Hailtrogula!
*throws Troth ballcap collection back to hatrack*
And now, I daresay I'm going to watch old Twilight Zone episodes and knit. It's just durned warm here in the home office.
-- Lorrie
The meeting of Hrafnar that was postponed for Trothmoot last week happened last night instead. While it's our typical practice to do the "Midsummer Blot" that we published in the Troth's Book of Blóts, for sundry logistical reasons I pruned it down to an informal three-round sumbel with a Sunna-dedicated first round. Fleshy dainties were seared over charcoal in her honor, accompanied by Heiðrun, a local, commercially produced, sparkling mead.
Now, I've mocked their label in the past for having Sleipnir on the front because Heiðrun is a goat--a very nice little black goat whose teats produce Valhö's mead, to which I can safely say, "Wow, that's some goat!" But still! Not a knotwork-legged stallion by any stretch.
However, I found out from a friend of the meadery owner that Sleipnir is on the bottle because the owner can't find a worthy goat picture.
Clearly, someone who can draw his or her way out of a paper bag can fix this.
Clearly, that person is not me.
I suspect--but cannot state--that such art might earn some mead in exchange. It jolly well should, Gebo being what it is, but I can't say for certain. If someone might be interested in a barterish commission, get in touch with David Carlson, who Knows That Guy, or me, who knows David Carlson who Knows That Guy. Things, I should think, could be worked out.
Next month's Hrafnar meeting will be the Land Spirits' Picnic. We'll gather at Greyhaven and carpool our way to our other favorite pic-a-nic spot, up in Tilden Park.
And now, "below the fold":
Diana Is Safe in Greece and Misses You, Too
dpaxson and jon_decles are safe and sound in Greece for a month-long trip. Once she found out that neither of their phones would work there (She has Credo, he has Verizon), we dug up these guys online. I was a bit suspicious at first, but a quick trawl through others' opinions reassured us that all was on the up-and-up. I can confirm that it does work as advertised, too, as she called me with it. She reports that the terrain and climate are rather like Central and Southern California, although the mountains are a bit more "knobbly and interesting". jon_decles (a Hellenic Recon) has now visited two temples (Artemis and Poseidon) and is a happy man.There will be pictures, or I will be Most Horribly Vexed.
Fiber Fluff
So, yesterday, I had to visit the Amoral Admen's computers. These are in Milpitas, which isn't dangerously close to Purlescence Yarns in Sunnyvale, CA, but closer than where I live.
Still, when I'd been by, I noticed they had Blue Moon Fiber Arts Raven Clan colorways, aka "taste the black rainbow", although they were very sadly lacking in the two for which I had a MIGHTY NEED--their blood and black Valkyrie (IT IS NAMED VALKYRIEZOMGs) and the blue and black Haida (!!blue!! and !!black!!). They said they would have these in June.
On my way away from Visiting the Computers, I phoned over there.
They'd gotten Haida in that day. Weren't going to put it out 'til tomorrow.
I sniffled and asked if, in the name of good eco-conscious practice, I might buy one now, as I was all in the neighborhood and everything. They said yes!
SO!
I toddled on in and bought two skeins of each (one skein makes one pair of socks)*, and an LED light that wraps around one's ear like a
In short? This is a whole rainbow of black. It would be more black, but then it would need to have that carbon nanofiber shag in. It's BLACK.
But back to Purlescence, I should mention that they will have a table in the dealers' room at Pantheacon. Be very afraid...
In other purchases here and at Article Pract, I picked up some white sock yarn AND Cat Bordhi's Magical Pathways for Sock Knitters, Vol. One.
Cat Bordhi is a hacker--and I use that term in the old, respectful sense.
She has hacked socks, and the results are awesome.
* - Until the weather is consistently cooler enough to work on devotional shawls, a Certain Sweater, and so on, it's socks and berets FTW.
Trothstuff
Trothmoot was awesome, and you should have been there.
walkyrja is now the Steer, and it is generally agreed that the Trains Will Run on Time, as she is ably skilled as an executor and an administrator.Not to say that she's captaining Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer (the Executor), just that she has Plans, and they are Firm, and they are Executed with a Swiftness not unlike Mjolnir bringing it to a Thurs-skull.
walkyrja is All Out of Bubble Gum, and good thing for the Troth that she is.OK! *swap hats to: Assistant Editor, Idunna*
Idunna 76 is the first to feature a first four-color cover (in some of our early ones, the editor might hand-color, say, Idunna'a apple, but this? is COLOR, exactly unlike the aforementioned sock yarn). We were holding off on making great mention of this until it was, you know, in the mail, but now it should have gotten around the country, and the Shope's Office is giddy as schoolgirls about it, despite that we're all three too old for it, and one of us has the wrong plumbing. GIDDY I tell you.
The Budget allows us to do this twice a year, but if really awesome artwork keeps coming, we--the Troth's mighty revenue engine--may ask for an increase and roll this more often. Still, the semi-gloss paper and color process adds more than a dollar per copy to the production costs, so we are cautious and prudent and all that good jazz.
*swaps hat to: Assistant ICO*
(Which makes me think of "Iko Iko" and now I can has earworm BUT I DIGRESS)
I am cautiously happy about the progress that's going on with regards to the Troth website and the underlying database. If anyone has the right to be guarded about this, it'd be me.
BUT!
I'm willing to admit that this time, it just might work.
Hail
trogula!*throws Troth ballcap collection back to hatrack*
And now, I daresay I'm going to watch old Twilight Zone episodes and knit. It's just durned warm here in the home office.
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2008-06-20 12:06 am (UTC)I'm doomed....
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Date: 2008-06-20 12:10 am (UTC)They've gone to spinning.
THERE WILL BE FIBER!
Butwaitthere'sMORE
Not just wool--she also sells sea cell by the seashore.
DOOM!
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2008-06-20 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-20 04:55 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie, enabler.
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Date: 2008-06-20 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-20 05:00 pm (UTC)-- L
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Date: 2008-06-20 04:04 am (UTC)I have fabric for a second tunic for you, but cannot make it until the one I made while I was there appears....
Fiber at P'con sounds very very dangerous. :-)
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Date: 2008-06-20 04:57 pm (UTC)D'oh! I took the fabric to Greyhaven just after you left because
Thus, the fabric is now At Greyhaven Somewhere. Unless it's somewhere immediately obvious, I can't get it to you until late July--and even if it is somewhere obvious, I'm not daring her bedroom 'til after the heatwave...
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2008-06-20 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-20 04:57 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2008-06-20 06:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-20 04:58 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie (honestly, they should give me free yarn for all this shilling)
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Date: 2008-06-20 10:22 am (UTC)--Ember--
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Date: 2008-06-20 04:59 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2008-06-20 04:13 pm (UTC)*clearing throat*
What is love? Baby don't hurt me no more. ...What is love...
You're welcome.
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Date: 2008-06-20 05:00 pm (UTC)So there.
Although I was deeply amused/croggled that Cookie Monster was on The Colbert Report last night.
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2008-06-20 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-20 11:23 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2008-06-21 02:36 am (UTC)Regarding Idunna:
GIDDY INDEED! I was soooooooooooo excited when I saw the front cover!! I can only imagine how excited you all were about it! I am always looking forward to receiving our issues. I *have* to brew up a batch of my current at-that-time-tea-passion and read it. =)
I'm hoping to contribute at some point soon, when I have some time to sit down and put something together. But for now, I'm really focusing on getting our local Pagan organization on it's feet, and their events really going. We're in the works of becoming a 501(c)(3), having voted Officer's in last year and finished our by-laws...now we're filing currently. What a process!!! Aaaaanyway...I digress...Back to Idunna. I enjoyed so much of the article, from the Runes to the Ship burial in Denmark, and the Sami Drum....it was all awesome.
We haven't been able to make Trothmoot yet, for monetary and family reasons. We're hoping that we might make it as soon as next year, but more realistically in two years. If there's one organization I would like to get more involved with, it would be The Troth. =)
Have a wonderful evening!
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Date: 2008-06-24 06:41 pm (UTC)THERE IS NO FUSCHIA BLOOD WTF.
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Date: 2008-06-24 06:49 pm (UTC)In other news, Cat Bordhi (http://www.catbordhi.com/)'s sock book rocks my world--I'm 3/4 of the way done with a pair of Coriolis in Katia's Linen (a cotton/linen blend) in ZOMG WHITE.
-- Lorrie