A Philly creator is celebrating Taylor Swift's Pennsylvania roots
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It's easy to forget that Taylor Swift is from Pennsylvania, but one Philly creator is celebrating the pop star's local roots.
What's happening: Katie Oxman, who runs @taylorswiftstitch on Instagram, posted a series of cross-stitches earlier this month highlighting Swift's lyrical mentions — both direct and indirect — of the Keystone State.
- "I wanted to bring a little of Pennsylvania to the stitches beyond the lyrics — with the mountain laurels and the Philly skyline," Oxman told Axios.
- A burning question is whether the "Eagles T-shirt" mentioned in the song "gold rush" references the band or the football team. No surprises here: Oxman thinks it's the team, a reaction she suspects is shared by most Philadelphians.
The backdrop: @taylorswiftstitch has racked up over 14,000 followers and Etsy customers from as far away as Australia and New Zealand, but it's a relatively new project for Oxman.
- She crafted her first Swift cross-stitch — lyrics from "seven" — during a pandemic power outage soon after the release of "folklore" in 2020 and only posted it to Instagram at the urging of a friend.
- Some of her Reels racked up hundreds of thousands of views, sending her follower count skyrocketing.
- Swift's camp even invited Oxman last year to the New York premiere of the music video for the 10-minute version of "All Too Well" — which came to her personal Twitter account, not @taylorswiftstitch. "It's really a testament to Tay lurking, like she knows everything," she said of Swift's famously very-online nature.
What's next: Keep an eye on Oxman's Etsy store, where you'll likely see the Eagles cross-stitch and patterns for all of her Pennsylvania-linked projects up for sale in the days ahead.