Business Meeting Tonight

Reminder,  Debatable Lands business meeting is tonight at 8. This is, I hope, the last entirely virtual meeting before we move to a regular space at Ace Throwing, but we will continue to have a virtual option. As always meetings are open to all, and everyone can vote except on financial matters or if an officer calls for an officer only vote. Tonight we will be finalizing plans for Agincourt and looking forward to our next several events. If you are interested please join us. 

Here’s the link for tonight:

Debatable Lands Business Meeting Scheduled: Oct 9, 2024 at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM, EDT Location: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86356863438?pwd=onP4ybxhOaygujlILqvq2QSzbaUXGZ.1

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Baronial Scribal Night – October 14th!

Happy Scribetober, all! Salve Accolens! It’s Bess, your Baronial Signet inviting you to a Scribal Night on Monday, October 14th.

Our most treasured Elinor and Michi will be opening their space for this event, same as the monthly Baronial A&S nights. We will be gathering 6:30-9:30pm in Stanton Heights to parallel play with our projects, or just to ask questions, support and socialize.

Have you made an award recommendation lately for your fellow barony member? Now is a great time to send an email to their excellencies at baronage@debatablelands.aethelmearc.org or via the google form here: http://www.debatablelands.org/award-recommendation.php

I anticipate having assignments to hand out for upcoming events from Prima and Violetta very soon, so this could be a great time to pick up an assignment, a scroll case, and even some blanks, if you’d like to do so. Looking forward to catching up with all who attend!

If there is interest in a zoom link, let me know no later than Sunday, October 13th at noon. Thanks!

YIS, THLady Lisabetta de Rossi

Harvest Revel Nov 3

Harvest Revel is back! (mostly, but the roof isn’t safe yet, so no shooting off the roof or pumpkin toss this year, sorry). The baronesses would like a fall harvest themed potluck contest- keep in mind that Praetoria Prima cannot have mammal products, even lard. Fall jams and jellies, absolutely! Your fav squash soup, amazing! A pie with no lard, yum!

Come have fun with your friends, eat well, fight, fence, throw, shoot, hang inside with A&S… And of course, a short barony meeting.

Debatable Lands 12th Night

Greetings, gentlefolk! You are cordially invited to the Debatable Lands twelfth night celebration on January 25th, 2025. Come for food and drinks, contests of skill, and a night of revelry with friends!

When and where: 9AM to 9PM, at North Park Lodge, North Ridge Drive, Allison Park, PA 15101

Activities:
Potluck food (bring a dish to share!)
The annual cookie contest
Drinks from our wonderful Brewer’s Guild
Baronial Bardic championships
Baronial A&S championships
Largesse competition
Auction of donated items, with proceeds going to the Barony (there will also be a barter zone)
The Debatable Lands social/business meeting
Dancing
Pillow fights
Shenanigans and merriment
How much does all of this cost? Absolutely nothing!

I have other questions! Contact the autocrat, Forveleth Dunde MKA Miranda Gavrin, at forveleth@gmail.com or 317-697-7883.

Sunday Scroll Case Sewing vs Great Race Course Route

There is scroll case sewing Sunday Sept 29th from 1pm to 5pm at 1105 Shady Avenue. Please see the earlier post for the details. Also, the Great Race is on Sunday. The 10k race which starts at 9:30 a.m. goes from Frick Park along Forbes Avenue to Oakland and then on Fifth Avenue into town. Here is the link for the map. In the bottom right it lists the closing times for different parts of the route. You should avoid coming through downtown.

Fiber Guild Dye Day

The BMDL Fiber Arts Guild is having a fall dye day on October 6th, 2024.

We will meet from 11-3 PM at Tsvee’a’s House. It is a $10 suggested donation to help me cover the cost of dyes. Any extra goes to the next dye day.

In addition to the usual indigo, we will dye with seasonal fall dye sources, black walnut and kakishibu (persimmon tannin). Some synthetic cellulose dyes in red will also be available for those who want to make some fall purples. I will bring stencils and brushes for those who want to do indigo surizome again; I have learned some new tricks.

While the indigo and synthetic red baths will accept larger amounts of cloth and fiber, the kakishibu and walnut are limited in quantity. Please be courteous and bring smaller projects (=< 1 lb fiber) to dye for these dyes.

Please scour your fibers and wash any fabrics in a ph neutral detergent (like synthraprol) before coming so the dye will take. Message me if you need help with that. None of these dyes require mordants, and some will have color shifts if you do, so please don’t mordant unless you understand what you are doing and what the color change will be.

You are welcome to bring food to share if you like, but please eat a meal if you need to beforehand, as it is difficult to dye and eat at the same time.

Wear some clothes that you don’t mind messing up. I will have disposable gloves available, but you may want long rubber ones if you’re going to seriously dunk stuff in the indigo or red.

Finally, loose (unspun) fiber must be secured with a laundry mesh bag in the dye bath for the sake of the plumbing. Please bring a mesh bag or something to keep your loose fiber from floating freely in the bath and going down the drain.

Fall Dye Day

The BMDL Fiber Arts Guild is having a fall dye day on October 6th, 2024.

We will meet from 11-3 PM at our usual place, 5167 Rosecrest Drive. It is a $10 suggested donation to help me cover the cost of dyes. Any extra goes to the next dye day.

In addition to the usual indigo, we will dye with seasonal fall dye sources, black walnut and kakishibu (persimmon tannin). Some synthetic cellulose dyes in red will also be available for those who want to make some fall purples. I will bring stencils and brushes for those who want to do indigo surizome again; I have learned some new tricks.

While the indigo and synthetic red baths will accept larger amounts of cloth and fiber, the kakishibu and walnut are limited in quantity. Please be courteous and bring smaller projects (=< 1 lb fiber) to dye for these dyes.

Please scour your fibers and wash any fabrics in a ph neutral detergent (like synthraprol) before coming so the dye will take. Message me if you need help with that. None of these dyes require mordants, and some will have color shifts if you do, so please don’t mordant unless you understand what you are doing and what the color change will be.

You are welcome to bring food to share if you like, but please eat a meal if you need to beforehand, as it is difficult to dye and eat at the same time. Light refreshments will be available.

Wear some clothes that you don’t mind messing up. I will have disposable gloves available, but you may want long rubber ones if you’re going to seriously dunk stuff in the indigo or red.

Finally, loose (unspun) fiber must be secured with a laundry mesh bag in the dye bath for the sake of the plumbing. Please bring a mesh bag or something to keep your loose fiber from floating freely in the bath and going down the drain.