James Divine: We are on our new season of Knit A Spill. I'm so excited.
Katie Rempe: I know. I'm loving this seasonal format. You know why? Why? Because we get to talk about one topic the entire season instead of just like for four episodes.
James Divine: So this whole season is about color magic.
I'm excited.
INTRO
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Light From Lantern presents: Knit A Spell.
I'm magical maker: Katie Rempe.
And I'm the maker of magic: James Divine.
Join us as we stitch together the symbiotic relationship between crafting and 'The Craft'.
James Divine: So let's talk about what color magic is. Yeah. What the heck is it?
What is Color Magic?
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James Divine: I think if you ask 10 people, you'll probably get 20 answers? So I think color magic is, a way of using your perception of color as a way to focus your intent, your magical intent, just like you would use any other focal point or focal system like scent or touch or anything else.
You can use your perception of color to focus your intent. And we have a lot of common associations with color because we see color, and we would associate it with either elements Or experiences in some way, like most people would say the ocean is blue or the ocean is a series of colors related to blues and greens.
And so we might associate those oceany colors with things we would associate with the oceans. And so this is our association with blues and so this is a sort of sympathetic magic or an associative magic or a way of associating those things together, and that can help us focus our intent because we're adding those colors to what we're doing.
What would you add, or how would you modify what I'm saying?
Katie Rempe: I completely agree. Color is just a tool in which to focus your energy, so if the color elicits the particular energy you're looking to put into whatever the work is, then that's the color that you want to focus on or bring into because that's going to raise your energy to meet the level of the work that you're doing.
James Divine: Yeah. Perfect. And much more succinct. Thank you.
Katie Rempe: Leave it to a Virgo. I think it's all right.
James Divine: The Virgos are good at this.
Katie Rempe: And that's basically why we're talking about it all season is because even though in the past we've had an episode on the primary colors.
We had a whole episodes on green magic and gray magic, which we'll make sure to link to as we go along, we're probably not going to re go into those particular two colors because we have all the rest of them to go into. And not that we'll cover every color, but many colors. So that's going to be a lot of fun.
James Divine: And we're talking about it because this is our new season. It's autumn. And it's the time when lots of people pick up that knitting and get to work. What's one of the most common things that customers at the yarn shop or people might email you from Light From Lantern when they're working on a project?
Katie Rempe: A lot of it has to do with color. Can I make it in this color? What do you think about these color combinations? And so a lot of it is just my opinion that they're looking for, which is why, when you take time to discover what colors. So if you to you, in terms of feelings and emotions, you can correlate your own list and have this really powerful correspondence for you to reference back to any time.
James Divine: Yeah, I think it is a lot of fun when you're at a yarn shop. One of the fun things is when you're there by yourself is to look at different yarns And to go up to the shopkeeper or one of the people and say, what do you think about these two colors together versus these two? Because a lot of times, aren't you having fun shopping and you're looking at color combinations and gosh, this mint green and this pink is really cool together, but so is the pink and this sort of lavender.
And it's fun either way. And maybe the shopkeeper or the person might say, have you ever considered this gray color with that pink? Or what are you making or what is this for? And they could also bring in a third option that might just cement the deal. Did you see what I did there with the gray?
But who knows, like maybe they'll have another idea or maybe they'll bring in another thing you hadn't thought about or a color that they've really loved working with that color pink or switch out the pink for something else. And I think that it's a lot of fun in some ways. Do you have fun shopping for colors with customers?
Katie Rempe: Oh, that used to be one of my favorite things to do. Because again, color was always a point of contention with a lot of people like, I don't want to make it in the wrong color, which I was always like but you liked it enough initially to pick it up.
So that's probably okay. But one of the things that I always enjoyed was when people would come in and see the samples. There would be pre knit samples, in all variety of colors and everything. I would say, eight or nine times out of ten, folks end up making exactly the same colors that they have seen the sample in.
Because they know it works. Not because they're not creative, and not because they couldn't do just as good of a job, but because they already see proof. And there you have it. works. Or they shop for colors that they're already wearing, which is always fun to Oh, does this look good on me?
And you just go, yep, it does. And it currently does. So there you go.
James Divine: Because you're wearing that rust color right now. That's
Katie Rempe: right. Yes.
James Divine: And are they surprised that they're actually wearing that color?
Katie Rempe: Every time. It's always like Oh, I guess you're right.
Upcoming Guests
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James Divine: I'm excited for this season because we have some kick ass guests. Oh
Katie Rempe: man. Yes. We have so many great guests. We have, in fact, one awesome guest for every month. So three guests, one per month for this season.
So who do
James Divine: we have in September?
Katie Rempe: September, we have knitwear designer Stephanie Dosen Hart of Tiny Owl Knits.
James Divine: Okay. So if you're a knitter, you already probably know about Stephanie Dosenhart.
Katie Rempe: Or if nothing else, the beekeeper's quilt of which you may have one cast on in your stash.
James Divine: You probably have a few of those little hexagons somewhere in your life. So Stephanie Dosenhart will be our guest and I think that's pretty amazing. How is it that you've got such kind of a famous person to be on our lowly little podcast, Katie? Are you like secretly famous?
Yes. Are you like the Beyonce of knitting?
Katie Rempe: I don't want to out myself and say, I know everyone can do anything, but no, it turns out all I had to do was just reach out to her and she replied and was like, yeah, this is right up my alley. And I know our listeners are going to love this episode because she is just a perfect magical making knitter.
I know it's going to be a huge episode.
James Divine: She's gotten all magical since the beekeeper's quilt and that will be so much fun. Oh yeah.
Okay. In October, we have the author of this amazing book called Cord Magic. We've had her on before, Brandy Williams, she comes back magic of working color and chords.
Remember when we talked to Brandy last time and we were just fascinated with her knowledge? She is one of those witches that just knows all the ins and outs and the tricks.
Katie Rempe: Oh, yeah. She had one chapter in her book that was all about color. And all I wanted to do was talk to her about that chapter last time we had her on.
And so we get to ask about that. We do this time. Yes. So it's going to be amazing. And she has such a breadth of knowledge about so many things that I still feel like a book of color is on her horizon somewhere.
James Divine: You're going to love that episode. It is. Lit. It's so good. It's so good.
And in November, drum roll, please.
The author of Inspiring Creativity Through Magick, Astrea Taylor.
Katie Rempe: Oh, what a brilliant mind.
James Divine: She's an author. She's a witch. She's so genius.
Katie Rempe: What if you were a person who grew up seeing ghosts and having out of body experiences? How would that change your whole life? I don't find out in this episode
James Divine: and then just knit yourself a little sparkly scarf that looks amazing. That has a color work and totally off the cuff.
Just off the cuff, just whatever. It's just going to be like an image of my psychic brainwaves, on a scarf, oh, it's just this little thing I did. NBD.
That's Astrea Taylor. You definitely have to tune in for that in November. All of them are going to be in the middle of the month. Stephanie Dosen Hart, Tiny Owl Knits, that's on September 13th. Brandy Williams, she'll come back and talk to us on October 11th, National Coming Out Day.
Day! So we'll find out who's gay and who's not gay. Ooh! Exciting! And, Astrea Taylor on November 15th.
You'll get to enjoy Katie and I. For the rest of the episodes, as we talk about color magic . I'm so excited, Katie.
Katie Rempe: Me too. We're going to do deep dives on each color and we're going to do a couple extra special episodes that have to do with alternative site for those who, see colors as colors that are colors, but maybe not the way that other people see colors.
James Divine: There's some people that see extra colors. Like the opposite of colorblindness.
Katie Rempe: If any tetrachromats are listening, please drop me an email. We would love to talk to you. We need you. Yes.
All right. Let's take a quick break because when we come back, I have some questions that we're going to do some rapid fire question and answer to each other.
It has all to do with color. So sit back, take a break, and we'll be right back.
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Katie. I got this email about a knit with color magic workshop.
Katie Rempe: That's right. I now offer a brand new workshop on my website. 100% self-paced. All about learning how to knit using color magic, cuz you already knit using colors, but why not be a little bit more aware of how they make you react, how you could use them to help other people express different emotions and feelings.
And more importantly, the ability to be more aware of how colors affect you and how you can use them to help make your knitting projects even more impactful.
James Divine: Even me colorblind Jim, and I'm in there in the comments.
Katie Rempe: That's right. Jim has taken the course and Jim has helped me actually with feedback in the bonus colorblindness section, so why don't you go ahead and learn more by visiting light from lantern.com, and if you have any questions, you can always just drop me an email at hello light from lantern.com. Hope to see you there.
Color Q&A
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Katie Rempe: All right, Jim, we're back and it's time for our rapid fire questions. Are you ready?
James Divine: Yeah. Wait, do listeners get to play along? Oh, heck
Katie Rempe: yeah. What we want, just think about it and hope for the best. No.
James Divine: Oh, okay. Psychically. Okay, wait, I'm getting signs point to, where's my eight ball?
I need an eight ball.
Katie Rempe: Oh, it always just says ask again later. Damn it. I never get all signs point to yes. Maybe that will be one of our merch items in the future. It'll be like a knit a spell magic eight ball.
James Divine: And every single answer is signs point to yes. We'll just have the triangles always say that.
Katie Rempe: Why not? I love it.
James Divine: Cast on and try again.
Katie Rempe: Yep. You got this. You got it. It's fine. It's fine. Keep going. Keep going. Yeah. Keep.
James Divine: Fix it. Forget it. Yeah.
Katie Rempe: Oh, hey we have that coin. So it's almost the same thing. Yeah.
What you can do that maybe will be a little bit easier than building a psychic connection with us.
I don't know, is you can either drop us a comment on our YouTube channel, like in this very episode that you're probably watching right now to give us the answers to the question, which are in the show notes. So if you're like a Virgo, like me, and you're like, I need the question so that I can craft my answers to them.
Yeah. They're right there. You could also just email them to us, which is [email protected]. All info will be in the show notes.
James Divine: Or if you're in areas like me, you could just scream them out in the car as you're driving along. Yeah, and
Katie Rempe: then go on your merry way and be so happy.
James Divine: Yeah, I'll hear them.
Katie Rempe: You can hear all the Aries
James Divine: screams. All the Aries screams. We love it.
Katie Rempe: I'm going to start listening. I want to hear them too.
James Divine: All right.
Katie Rempe: So Jim, what? is your favorite color?
James Divine: Purple. Oh that was easy.
Purple looks like blue, but it has something else going on. It's a deeper vibrating purple that pulls and tugs at my spine in some weird way. between my solar plexus and my second chakra. So I don't know what it is about purple.
I always have to ask if something is blue or purple because I don't trust my eyeballs, but I know I love it.
Katie Rempe: Very good.
James Divine: What's your favorite color, Katie? Yellow. It is? Yes. What type of yellow?
Katie Rempe: Like a golden Yellow. Not like a highlighter yellow, but like a golden, warm, sun, honey yellow.
Like bees and that kind of... Like amber? Yeah. Amber is the color of my energy, you know what I'm saying? Don't sue me, 311.
James Divine: I have a little piece of amber right there.
Katie Rempe: Oh! That's it! That's the color. Wow. My first car was yellow. I loved it. I always thought it was lightning fast and so fun.
And that I would never get hit by anybody with it because... That would be your fault, sir, or
James Divine: ma'am. I am driving a yellow car. You didn't see me? Yeah, come on. You're like, but lady, you ran the stop sign. But I was driving a yellow car! And you didn't
Katie Rempe: see me run it? No. How dare you, Jim.
James Divine: Alright, what's your least favorite color?
Katie Rempe: Jim, this is awkward for me to admit. But it's been purple
I never had much of a relationship with purple for whatever reason and whenever the only like positive purple feeling that I have is like Purple is the color of magic. So that is at least one thing But otherwise I was always like oh purple so costumey .
What's your least favorite color? Yellow.
James Divine: I'm just kidding.
My least favorite color is green. Oh. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's not a color I see. Pretty much bland. I have, I think, only two shirts that are green of my entire sort of extensive wardrobe. I have very little green. I have to remember that they're green, and it's not a color that I have much connection with.
Katie Rempe: That makes sense. here's question number three. Yeah. How does seeing a rainbow make you feel?
James Divine: Joyful. Oh, I love seeing a rainbow. I love seeing... Real rainbow in the sky is really pretty. I love seeing rainbow flags. I love seeing unicorns and rainbows. Anytime I see the rainbow, it's always rainbow sidewalks, whatever it is.
I'm always like, Ooh, that's so pretty. It's all the colors together. So I always get super like excited and it's, it just gives me happiness. Like, how could it not? Yeah. What does seeing a rainbow mean to you, Katie?
Katie Rempe: For me, symbolically, it always means hope. It always does seem like I see rainbows when I'm in a state of turmoil, which is interesting.
You know what it makes me think of? Lisa Frank, which is the 1990s child fantasy of all of the rainbow like creatures and stickers and notebooks and things like that. Yeah. So it takes me back to my childhood a little
James Divine: bit. You can still get Lisa Frank like Rainbow Tigers and oh, yeah,
Katie Rempe: If you're in your late 30s early 40s and you know exactly what I'm talking about and also Lisa Frank was the first thing you thought about with rainbows let me know.
Yeah
James Divine: the Lisa Frank unicorns and the Lisa Frank dolphins and the Lisa Frank like everything.
Katie Rempe: Oh yeah just everything was brightly rainbow. Wonderful. Oh
James Divine: it's hurting my eyeballs. Oh, yeah.
Katie Rempe: That's the 90s, baby.
James Divine: Yep. Oh, that's totally 90s. Yeah. I think the rainbow also, obviously, is LGBTQI, right? It's also that.
So that's also why I love it. Yeah.
Katie Rempe: Speaking of joy, what colors do you associate with joy?
James Divine: It is still rainbows, but it's also bright colors, I think it's very stereotypical for me.
I would love to be like, I associate black with joy, but I'm a very stereotypical type person and, I really do associate those like brighter colors with joy. I have a really great association with sort of pastels. A lot of people think that's sickening or like they hate pastels, but I think they're so joyful.
It reminds you of springtime and Easter and like all those kinds of things. Yeah. And I have good associations with, the springtime it's my birthday. The Aries time. And so I have a lot of those happy associations with those kinds of things.
So those colors are joyful and in measured quantity, please. And in the right place and time. So no. I do not want a house full of pastel, in the nineties, there was a whole movement to do bleached oak and desert Southwest decor where I raised was raised in Arizona and it was all these pastel turquoise and pastel everything.
And now I look back and I'm like barf. Peach and mint and light blue and seafoam and tan beige at the time it was all the rage.
Katie Rempe: Yeah I, the same yellow, bright colors. Yeah, same. Yep. I also am not the one who's saying that black is the most joyful because it's the inclusion of all colors, even though maybe we could change it that way. I don't know.
James Divine: All right, Katie, I want to ask this last one, can I? Is it possible to have too much color? Okay. No caveats.
Katie Rempe: No. You can't have too much color. What? You can't have it.
James Divine: No. Explain yourself.
Okay, because you got some screening to do, Lucy,
Katie Rempe: at a certain point, the more you add, the more it matches. The chaos becomes some semblance of matching. Yes. Look at these beekeeper quilts. They have all random colors, but the fact that they're all random colors, suddenly. So I think there's a spectrum of you either have to be very curated, or you have to just go balls to the wall, no pun intended, sort
James Divine: of.
Balls to the wall is an Air Force reference.
Katie Rempe: Yes. All colors. All or nothing. Okay. What do you think?
James Divine: The correct answer to this question yes. It's possible to have too much color, you wild ass person, you.
Katie Rempe: Alright, that's fair. You're entitled to your opinion.
James Divine: It is possible to have too much color. It is possible to go overboard. What are we, switching signs? Are you a trans Aries? Am I a trans Virgo? I think we're using our rising or our ascendant or something because This is my Virgo rising and speaking like I appreciate being a little bold and getting a little out there with some colors, but I think that I have up Lisa Frank, images and I'm like minimizing that window right now because dude, Lisa tripping.
Katie Rempe: Definitely. And some
James Divine: like great. Everyone needs to come down off their acid trip at some point. So it's possible to have too much of a good thing. It's possible to, overdo everything. So I think that, it is possible to have too much color and having too much color is great.
But having too much color is good in measured doses. So yes, I want too much color on a beekeeper quilt, but I don't want too much color everywhere else. That's fair.
Katie Rempe: If you guys like these questions and are ready to give us your 100% honest answers that have no room for any other interpretation, let us know in the comments.
We want to hear from you.
James Divine: I want to know. And I heard you, Aries, screaming out of your car. Did you agree with me? Or did you not agree with me? And what did you think about Katie's opinion about Purple? How dare she?
Katie Rempe: Oh, the nerve of her!
James Divine: Honestly, what did purple ever do to you?
Katie Rempe: Nothing. I don't
James Divine: grapey, artificial taste down your mouth.
Katie Rempe: It was always like, purple or blue? And I was like I guess blue. I don't know. Sorry, purple!
James Divine: This has been so much fun. I can't wait till next week.
Katie Rempe: Yes. Next week is our first guest episode, so you won't have to wait too long to hear from Stephanie Dosenhart, Tiny Owl Knits yay.
All right, Jim. I guess I'll let you get on with your life. What, you want to go out and love purple?
Whatever.
James Divine: Yeah, I'm going to go out and enjoy some purple. Here, to say goodbye, I'm gonna wear a special treat for you. Ooh! My sunglasses that are two colors, gold and purple.
Katie Rempe: Nailed it! It's almost like you knew what was going to happen today.
James Divine: Almost. I didn't know, but just so happens.
Katie Rempe: All right.
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James Divine: See you next week, everybody. See you then.
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