a new hummingbird tattoo!

when i was in arizona, sabin and i went to our favorite tattoo artist, lolo, to get a new tattoo. we wanted to match, but not be completely matching. we wanted something to remind us of arizona, since we share a lot of experiences there and we both went to arizona state.

we chose a hummingbird and lolo created one for us that would look great both in color and as a black line tattoo. i love color and sabin loves black lines.

when we arrived, we weren't sure where we wanted to place the tattoo. it turned out that we could actually place it in the same spot on our right arms, which wasn't our plan. but it just felt so right!

so cool and so meaningful, not to mention beautiful! what a great experience! 

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i just posted over on substack.

tea towels inspired by the eras tour

i was chatting with my sister and my swiftie friend on our group chat and we decided that my next weaving project should be tea towels inspired by the eras tour. so i ordered up a bunch of new weaving yarn in new colors. it arrived right before i went to the states. last weekend, i got started on seeing how the colors i ordered play together.

i made vikleprøver/yarn windings to play with the colors. i think i'll start with lover, which is the one at the top. followed by 1989, which is the one at the bottom. i need to adjust the colors for midnights (on the right), as the brown doesn't work and it needs some burgundy. the one on the left is reputation. that one, i want to play with a more graphic look. 

we're going to make the warp for lover this weekend. i'm even going to put that sparkly yarn in there, together with the purple, so that there's a little sparkle to them, even though that's not necessarily traditional in a tea towel.

the planning is actually becoming part of the fun for me! that's not normally my core competence, nor something i like all that much. i'm learning how to achieve the look i'm going for. and even learning what i like and what i don't. i think it's going to be a fun exercise. and with all those eras, it should keep the loom occupied for a few months to come.

 

glorious spring and some random thoughts

the weather has been completely glorious for the past few days. it was 21°C when i got home from work today around 5. i changed into running pants and decided to go out for a nice walk, maybe with a little intermittent jogging. i ended up talking to the neighbor for like half an hour since she was out in her garden when i went past. we talked about a little of everything, including the spray-tanned satan wreaking havoc on the world. she said she wished someone would "do something" about him. me too, sister. 

interesting that my 85-year-old neighbor in denmark seemed more informed and interested in what he was doing than many of the people i encountered while in the us a couple of weeks ago. she's pretty plugged into the local scene as well - telling me that the field across the road will be potatoes this year rather than corn. i think that's good. last year's corn crop was pretty dismal.

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the one thing i like about daylight savings time is having the light at the end of the day. it's 8:30 p.m. as i write this and there's still a glow. i wish we could just stay on this time and keep the evening light. 

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i don't know if you are on tiktok, but i've started making some knittok videos the past couple of days over there if you'd like to check them out. i did my first wip wednesday, which is a thing on knittok. on wednesdays, you just show and talk about all the projects that you're working on. and today, i did a yarn haul video featuring all of the yarn i bought in minneapolis. i'm not a great editor, as you will see, but everyone's gotta start somewhere. i think i'll do one with knitting hot takes next. it's also a thing over on knittok. you know what a sucker i am for joining a new community.

speaking of tiktok, it sounds like it might go away again for the americans, but perhaps trump is too busy inflicting tariffs on remote australian islands inhabited only by penguins to remember it should be turned off. they say the tariffs were calculated by chatGPT, so i guess ai really is going to be the end of things.