Maybe I used Hot wheels as warp weights but hey it worked, my tension looks good!

I'm also not letting myself watch YouTube at night bc it was rotting my brain so now I watch eurosleaze movies on Tubi (Lately: Five Dolls for an August Moon, The Girl from Rio, Puppet on a String) and at least I get nourishing visuals

Dressing the loom is going p good tho I totally made winding errors...it's fine...it's dishcloths

Even when I'm totally mystified by the movie itself man I love *looking* at Mario Bava movies

no pic bc I left my phone in a friend's car but I can say I have got my warp sleyed and 3/4ths heddled which is pretty exciting

Phew just about done with mine, will work on his this week. To be clear it was his idea, he works downstairs a lot and didn't need a lot of room upstairs

Cleaning house and folding laundry are done, on to switching closets, wherein I must face how much vintage clothing I have amassed :')

Bathrooms...clean...time 4 the kitchen

All I want is to have a day fully planned by someone else where I'm not responsible for anything

Sacked out

Just another drop in the enshittification ocean but damn Google maps gives you the worst public transit combinations humanly possible and i always just have to figure out the routes and connections individually...like it forgets the fucking BSL exists

Long weekend to do list: -clean house -fold laundry, switch over closets -finish organizing new studios -help bf with unemployment and med management appts -warp my dishtowels?? -finish my sphinx linocut??

I'm still organizing but I already have so much more space :')

New tattoo from @crimebird.bsky.social is perfect, I honestly thought it was cosmic mist but knowing now it's a winding path/road makes it all the better for moving onwards and upwards

Post tattoo woozy feeling time...

Truly just need to catch a break mental/physical health wise. It's been a brutal couple of months and I'd love to focus on literally anything else

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Black Arrow", illustrated by N. C. Wyeth

So close to being done switching our studios ;_; it's been so much work but it'll be good once it's done.

the island and the tower, 2024

Chicken veggie pizza and I made the dough from scratch~

CanNOT wait to see what y'all bring!!

I took off on Thursday to go to an NYC art show when it's "not so busy" as the weekend but uhhhhh unfortunately this is the same day as the Knicks parade

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Beach 1x is accomplished, and going to start the studio switch tomorrow :)

Well due to a fire and an extremely bumpy jitney ride we're taking a pit stop in NJ and taking in the local flavor

David Hockney

Beach beach beach

It does feel good to focus on working out again. I didn't lose as much strength as I thought and it's just nice to have something where failure is just, ok, we'll get it next week!

I've been looking at weaving blogs recently...so many that go all the way back to 2006. Some still posting, some mysteriously abandoned in the late 20teens, and too many with memorial pages up after folks have passed. It's been a bittersweet look at people, webplaces and knowledge lost to time

Ok, done with Edith Wharton's Custom of the Country. God you forget how deeply people wrote characters way back when, huh? Maybe a little too topical for me to fully enjoy, but you are just crawling inside Undine's head and watching her wrecking ball through lives to get the comfort she 'deserves'

Truly becoming trans uncle, had two younger guys ask me today about how long it took for my mustache to grow in (...8 years) and my voice to drop (probably a year but I don't think it really changed much anyway)

Hi hello

Hans Arnold (1925–2010)

Continuing to try to be productive and not just a sad sack so I'm winding on my first big boy warp for some dishcloths...halfway there. 8/2 cotton that'll be sett at 20epi

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Fighting depression with loud shirts and my sweet lad

Reading gilded age satire about the American nouveau riche is feeling...hmm

Rare informal jacket/waistcoat for a man or woman, made in Italy, ca 1630-1700. Hand-knit of coral pink & silver-gilt silk. Full description & more images here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10383/...

Washing out Giorno bc he needs a restyle and hanging with Baby Boy Taiga

I don't usually push church stuff but if you are in Philly and wanna see Plan 9 From Outer Space (one of my all time faves) in a church graveyard, it's showing at Gloria Dei next Thursday 6/11 and I'm very excited

My elderly son...I love him...

Anyhow refitting some jeans and carving away

Summer goals: -read more literature/non fiction -work out 3x week -get to the beach at least 3x -do 3 of my repeat lino prints -weave a warp of towels and one of placemats -swap me and the hubs studios -see 2 gallery shows in NYC -hang with friends, be more open with folks

I don't think this'll be the ultimate design, just wanted to play with this quilt pattern/composition for a tiled linoprint...

This summer I'm trying to focus on expanding out from the usual "recent sci fi/fantasy" fiction I read. Just finished Frankenstein (id never read it!) and now on to some Edith Wharton with Pynchon and Nabakov on my holds.

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Doing my best to not be real sad boy hours but it is not easy right now

'Loot from the Rainbow' Arthur Ferrier, Tattler Magazine, 1928 Scottish artist, illustrator & cartoonist #Pride2026