James Divine: What are we talking about today?
Katie Rempe: We are talking about getting grounded using garter stitch.
James Divine: Hey, that's the first stitch I learned.
Katie Rempe: That's right. In fact, that is the first stitch pretty much everyone learns because it is a foundational part of knitting and that's why I choose to correspond it with grounding, getting
grounded.
James Divine: I thought it was special.
Katie Rempe: It is special and so are you Jim. So don't worry. We're gonna dive into it in this episode of Knit a Spell.
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I know what garter stitch is. Well,
Katie Rempe: you tell
James Divine: me. Garter stitch is, isn't it all knits and no purls or something?
Katie Rempe: That's it. Jim. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Winner! He just won the garter game.
You didn't even know you were playing the garter game. There's
James Divine: a garter game? Oh shoot. There
Katie Rempe: is now! For a limited time, get the garter game! Available at knitaspell.Com maybe, I don't know.
I actually have visual aid, so if you're not watching, this is the time to do it. This is a good season to do it.
James Divine: That's really pretty, those colors. That's really cool. Oh, thank you.
Katie Rempe: Is that a swatch? This is a swatch, and I also use it as like a coaster, because everything that's a swatch Becomes a coaster.
You can see just like Jim said it is knit every stitch every row So all you're doing is just knitting knitting knitting knitting and this is the fabric that comes out of it.
So Knitting itself garter stitch is not necessarily a stitch. It's the fabric that comes out of doing the knit stitch over and over again.
So it's not actually a stitch, it's more of a fabric. Garter fabric is probably what we should be calling it, but that's where we're at.
James Divine: it's interesting to Think about what your knitting ends up being fabric, because I don't usually hear knitters or crocheters talk about it as fabric.
They talk about it as my knitting or the scarf or the blanket, but I guess technically if I'm at the store, it says, men's knitwear. I guess that is knitted, isn't it? It's
Katie Rempe: knitted! Yes, indeed. It is the, craft that allows you to make the fabric into the shape that you want it to as you're constructing the whole thing.
Instead of, woven fabric, where you would cut a pattern out of it and then sew it all together, you're doing it all at once. That's cool.
Garter History
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James Divine: Why is it called Garter? Was there like General Garter that won the Civil War or something? Or some conqueror?
Katie Rempe: Yes, learned it from Sok a Jew ee uh, you know?
Oh, Sok.
James Divine: Sok Sok a Jew ee uh.
Katie Rempe: It's terrible. You're all weak, guys.
James Divine: Her sister, Scarfa Julia.
Katie Rempe: They had an unbreakable bond,
James Divine: John Garter went in and destroyed the village and stole the
Katie Rempe: knitting. That's right. Yes. Absorbed all the information and then discovered it for the first time himself, without any help.
Imagine that. Classic move.
James Divine: This is a joke. Not really where it's named from. No, no, no. So where is it really? Where does it really come from?
Katie Rempe: Well, after doing some research, because this is one of those things where I never thought about where did it come from. It's just a thing that's in the vocabulary that I never thought about.
But why though? And so I found that garter stitch is way older than stockinette stitch, this one that is more flat with like the traditional V shapes. Oh, okay.
James Divine: Is stockinette made when you knit and purl?
Katie Rempe: That's right. Yes. So you knit one row and then you purl the next row and you keep doing those.
Back and forth. If you're knitting
James Divine: flat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, got it.
Katie Rempe: And so garter is older than stockinette stitch going back to the 1300s. Jeez. It was originally referred to a band of fabric that is tied around the leg to keep stockings up. Oh, remember garters? Again, I never put that together, like, oh, they were literal garters.
Elastic is a modern invention, as are tights and pantyhose, and even the most cleverly knitted socks can sometimes have the sag. And so having this, elastic from the garter knit stitch, was way more popular and that's what was used.
I
James Divine: see. Yeah. Yeah. Garter stitch is kind of stretchy.
Like if you took your stockinette and try to pull it versus the garter. Yeah. That's so
Katie Rempe: stretchy that way. So the garter, this is the garter being stretched. Now, granted this one is in the round, so it's a little different, but. It's, it's way, way different of a stretch profile.
James Divine: That's really
Katie Rempe: interesting.
And the earliest written use that I was able to find of garter stitch came from the 1840s book of knitting, netting, and crochet patterns by Scottish knitting and businesswoman Jane Goggin. Goggin's book was some of the earliest commercial knitting books and crochet books that were out there.
So they were very successful. It's called The Lady's Assistant. And it racked up 22 editions, which is pretty freakin cool. It was the very first knitted written instruction commercially available for the garter stitch.
James Divine: Ladies assistant. Well, no wonder this is something that is not so popular amongst the men
Katie Rempe: Nailed it.
Garter Fabric Characteristics
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Katie Rempe: Knowing that a little bit more about the garter stitch slash fabric, we can talk about what some attributes like physical attributes of the fabric. As we were talking about, it's the first stitch you learn when you're knitting.
When it comes to something that is actually. Maybe one of the most utilitarian stitches, garter stitch, you can really do anything with it because it's the same. Well, if you do it all in one color, it's reversible and will look the same on the front and the back. Now, I did this one striped so you can actually see there is a difference in my back of my fabric, but this could be like the featured side if you liked that style.
more than this one. There's really no wrong side. So that makes it really interesting in terms of like, what kind of magical uses could it be for knowing that it's reversible. Yeah.
James Divine: That's really interesting. So not only is it reversible, doesn't it stretch the same one direction and the other?
Katie Rempe: Yeah, so it's like a four way stretch. So you can stretch this way, you can stretch that way, unlike stockinette, which if you pull the length of it, it's very limited stretch. And then the width, there's more stretch. So that's more of a quote. two way stretch. Ooh, look at all these technical stretch terminology we're getting into, Jim.
James Divine: Well, this shows how, your education as a fashion designer and an expert in this is really cool because, these are things that I doubt that regular people would know, even if you're a knitter, like you didn't know the history
Katie Rempe: that's right. The last thing about garter stitch, which always sticks in my head is it does use more yarn.
Then like stockinette stitch, so that is something to keep in mind that if you're like looking at a pattern and you're thinking wow This is calling for way too much yarn in my opinion. It's because it's eating it up just like crochet It just uses more yarn.
James Divine: I guess it needs that in order to have that stretchy quality.
Katie Rempe: That's a good point.
Elizabeth Zimmerman
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Katie Rempe: We, of course, cannot mention garter stitch without me bringing up the legendary Elizabeth Zimmerman, which I know is probably meaningless to you, Jim. Elizabeth Zimmerman, a. k. a. E. Z., was born in British born.
And she, in modern time, really created garter stitch being cool. And had At least one book where she wrote, all about Garter Stitch, knit one, knit all. Because what? It's all garter stitch. So you're knitting one stitch and you're knitting them all. That
James Divine: is such a funny title. Yeah, that's awesome.
Katie Rempe: Knitters, really corner the market on having good wordplay, I think. She made this book. One pattern in particular called the baby surprise jacket is all knitted in garter stitch, all knit in one piece. And Jim, I wish I could show you, there's videos online. We could probably watch. After you knit it. It looks like this warped. piece of fabric and then just by folding Basically in half it becomes this jacket where you just seam under the arms and it's the whole thing It's done and it unravelry.
It's so popular one of maybe the most popular patterns over 30 1000 finished projects. And those are just the ones logged in on Ravelry. I'm sure there's more just out in the wild for people who don't do the online thing.
James Divine: Wow. That's really cool. So this jacket is probably really comfy. It's probably stretchy and warm
that would be a great thing to do in like a chenille or something like that.
Katie Rempe: Because they're really good for stripes having a yarn that either is self striping or is variegated it's a great pattern for once to use, uh, a loud yarn against because it can feature it, it can hold up.
It was so popular that then they extended it out to like, oh, the child surprise jacket, the adult surprise jacket, so surprise, you can make it all for every size and age at this point, so there you go. I'm
James Divine: looking at it online. They're actually really cute.
They're so cute. Buttons in the front. Mm hmm. You could do a scalloped edge. You can put a hood on it.
Katie Rempe: It's almost like, because garter stitch is so foundational, it is just ripe for having little add ons as you get to know more with your knitting, or you're more adventurous, or you just have made 15 of them, and you're like, I need something else here to keep me going.
It's a really inspiring jacket, especially since there's so many people who have done it. You can just go through those finished projects and see like, oh, I didn't think about doing this. Oh, I didn't think about doing that. And like you said, just adding a button or changing a button can really give it a whole different feel.
It's very fun. I love it. I
James Divine: want one for myself.
Katie Rempe: Well, all right, Jim, I'll know what I'm knitting for you, maybe for your birthday, we'll say next year. Cause
James Divine: That's right, because my birthday is in two days, so I don't think you can knit an adult sized surprise jacket in two days. I
Katie Rempe: could, Jim. Yeah. But I have other things to do, like sleep, and eat, and work occasionally. I believe in you. Oh, okay.
Well, you know what? I'm just gonna clear the schedule and we'll see how it goes. Yeah, I'm gonna live stream it on YouTube, see how it goes. 24 7 for two days.
James Divine: Because Jim is the baby. And that's my surprise.
Well, I have a lot of ideas on how this Fabric can be magical and some magical correspondence is so if we take a break when we come back, let's talk about all the magical relationships we can imagine with. Garter stitch. Oh,
Katie Rempe: I can't wait. Stay tuned everybody. We'll be right back.
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Intro To Palmistry
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James Divine: Hey Katie, you took my intro to palmistry course. Sure did. Why would you recommend it or would you? I, well, first of all, absolutely. I would, maybe I'm biased, but I don't think so. It for me was very empowering. It shined some light on how I tend to be personally self critical and you were really able to help me break that habit.
By looking at patterns as not things that are wrong, but just things that you can work with. The minuses became pluses and I think that was something that really was very empowering. I'm really glad you said that. This is one of my major ideas, is palmistry and tarot and other things reveal patterns. not predictions.
And to be able to also look at your own hand and transform and reframe your perceived character defects or your self critical analysis and look at that as a tool that's super useful and can be very positive for you, I think that's an amazing thing to do. and having it apply to a practice that is traditionally fairly fatalistic.
Your approach of the divine hand method is so positive. I would recommend it to anyone who's interested in palmistry to any degree. Where can they go to find out more? You, listener, can learn the divine hand palmistry method at your own pace with my brand new palmistry course. Go to introtopalmistry. com to read more information about it and to sign up.
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What is Grounding?
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Katie Rempe: Welcome back. I'm excited to chat about some correspondences that we could tie together with Garter Stitch. But first, Before we do that, I think it's important to remind folks, since it's been a while since we talked about what is grounding?
Like, we're talking about getting grounded, can you explain to people what is that exactly in your mind?
James Divine: The biggest correspondence that we came up with is, and why we named the episode Grounding with Garter, is this idea of grounding. We've talked about grounding and centering in previous episodes.
Episode number, I don't remember, but we'll link it. Yeah.
Katie Rempe: It might have been like, 24? Was it 24? Yeah. I don't know. You know. One of them.
James Divine: But anyway, have you noticed that we have a lot of
Katie Rempe: episodes? We have so many amazing episodes, and you can watch them all on YouTube! Yay! Yay!
James Divine: So, grounding.
Grounding is the first thing that I teach my magical students. Hey,
Katie Rempe: so just like grounding we teach garter,
James Divine: right? I mean, you might need to teach casting on first.
Katie Rempe: Well, yeah, you can do a knitted cast on so it's very close.
James Divine: So associated with grounding makes a lot of sense. So grounding is the act of getting deeply connected with a calming foundation.
It is a way to connect with the unlimited supply of energy available from the universe. It's a way to remind us that we belong and that we're an essential part of human existence.
James Divine: When we are grounded. Um, we are able to more easily stay calm in a crisis. We are able to access magical energy, and we're better able to withstand whatever might be happening to us or around us.
What I recommend everyone do is ground before any magical or psychic work in order to start from a place of empowerment. It's not just magic that uses grounding either. If you're in theater, if you do improv or performance of any kind, often grounding is a technique that is taught to actors and performers before they begin.
It's kind of a clear your mind, clear the decks, get centered, get connected with who you are, why you're here, your foundation. And then you can start. Performing from that place. It's a technique that's used, , in a sort of mundane way and also a super magical way. And of course, there are different ways to ground.
And that's why I recommend you listen to our episode on
Katie Rempe: grounding. Yes, grounding, centering all the good stuff in that episode.
Magical Uses for Garter Stitch
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James Divine: So Katie, I have a question.
So we talked about the baby surprise. That sounds like an accidental pregnancy. Okay. We talked about the surprise baby jacket. Mm hmm. What other types of projects are good for this stitch besides that? Can you make other things with just garter stitch?
Katie Rempe: Oh yeah. Garter stitch, I think, is really good for almost any project.
James Divine: What if you describe the project you'd make with the garter stitch and then let's brainstorm some magical associations With that piece. How does that sound?
Katie Rempe: Perfect. Let's do
James Divine: that. Okay. All right, you name one and then we'll brainstorm.
Scarves & Shawls
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Katie Rempe: Okay. So first off Scarves and shawls.
James Divine: Why would you use garter stitch for a shawl or
Katie Rempe: a scarf? Because it does not roll, curling is a number one, not concern, but a thing that is not preferred in most cases when you're doing stockinette stitch, which is the knit a row, purl a row. When you knit every row, It's evenly tensioned on the right and the wrong side, and that's why it doesn't curl and it lays nice and flat.
Does that mean you
James Divine: don't have to block it?
Katie Rempe: You don't have to block it, but I still recommend blocking even garter stitch because it helps relax all the stitches and even them out if there was any, discrepancy because you know, we're human, you know, we don't make everything perfectly tensioned that's what the blocking helps for but generally it's in a much better state fresh off the needles Than something that's like a lace pattern or stockinette stitch.
So good point.
James Divine: Yes. Got it. That's cool. So That means it's ready to go right off the needles it doesn't roll or curl up.
I noticed that, Garter is a little bit more, it seems thicker, like a little bit more squishy, right? Yes.
So, what are some magical correspondence with, a scarf? a scarf and a shawl is worn often around the shoulders, around your neck to keep your neck warm.
or shoulders warm.
Katie Rempe: Also, for decoration, sometimes you're just using it for a little, extra flair, it could be something squishy, but like, like weight, or cotton, or something like that, so not necessarily for protection, but like, you know, fashion, I
James Divine: suppose.
So I guess the magical correspondences that I could imagine are maybe comfort because of the shawls, blankety type I think that could be with a lot of these. Yep. Maybe it's protecting your voice.
Katie Rempe: Oh, throat chakra. Yeah,
James Divine: kind of that communication and throat chakra.
We're enhancing if it's decorative Sure. Oh, there you go. Yeah, what is something that you might think of in addition to that?
Katie Rempe: Yeah, I think empowerment in terms of like the throat chakra. So finding your voice, or cushioning the blow of like hard news, perhaps.
James Divine: I think about the. Like a shawl could also be something that protects your heart. And, that comfort of it wrapping around you. Absolutely. And since it's around your sort of heart chakra, and your shoulders, it's sort of like protecting you kind of like a turtle shell.
Katie Rempe: Yeah. Totally.
Blankets
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James Divine: What's another thing? Since you can make a shawl, does that mean you would make like a whole blanket?
Katie Rempe: There you go. It's like a supersized shawl, right? Yeah. Turtle shell. That's really the one that I think about, like protection and, comfort, if you're sick, what do you want to do?
You want to just lay on the couch or the bed under a blanket and just sort of like curl up under a blanket. Yeah. Yeah, that's really when the turtling, the hermiting comes in. Yeah,
James Divine: yeah. So maybe that blanket could be associated with the hermit card in the tarot, which you know the hermit card best. What do you associate the hermit card with?
Katie Rempe: Oh, I always think of it as removing yourself from distraction to look within to find wisdom or access outer wisdom, to be able to listen, to clear and make room. Yeah. Like a retreat. Yeah. Exactly. Oh, and what do you want on your retreat? Big old blanket.
James Divine: Big old squishy, stretchy wrap around you blanket.
Katie Rempe: Yep, and if you're knitting a blanket, it's probably going to take some time. And so having, Patience is a good one. Not just for garter stitch, but generally for a blanket. And you're probably gonna learn something by the end, if nothing else. It's a huge achievement just to do something that big and finish.
Yeah,
James Divine: you're going to learn how many skeins of yarn it takes.
Katie Rempe: You're going to learn how much willpower you have to finish and how long that takes. Yeah. Yeah. Cause maybe it just takes a month and maybe it takes 40 years. Or maybe it's like my beekeepers quilt and you never finish it. Just put it in the coffin with me.
You're aloud.
Socks & Slippers
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James Divine: Okay, what else can you make with garter stitch? I mean, earlier you talked about garter is named after the top of socks. Mm,
Katie Rempe: right, yes.
James Divine: Don't want to make the whole sock out of it, do you? You
Katie Rempe: sure could. There are certainly garter stitch patterns that are in fingering weight for like socks and things like that. I tend to avoid anything that has garter stitch. Again, this one here on the bottom of your foot. A lot of the times it'll just be like on the top part of the foot, so you're not stepping on it.
however, However, Slippers, and when I say slippers, I tend to be referencing, patterns that are, like, thicker, so, a worsted weight or a bulky weight yarn that you're using, so everything is just really squishy. My grandma used to knit these slippers that were just garter stitch, they were just like a square or a rectangle, and the way you folded it up and seamed it in made the little foot.
James Divine: It was like a adult surprise slipper?
Katie Rempe: Yes. A surprise slipper, which again, not a thing you want to be a surprise. You don't want it slip by surprise, which is why you should always treat the bottom of your socks with like those. Poofy paint or uh, or hot glue hot glue. That was it. Yeah.
Yeah,
James Divine: This is cool. So of course slippers That's where we get into like the foundation their connection with the earth Yeah, and of course all of these have comfort but I also think about that being maybe empowerment because you're connected to the earth So there's the sense of like I have my roots in the earth or I'm rooted or I'm you know, deeply connected
Katie Rempe: Yep.
And you're more prepared to like go and do a thing because you're comfortable and you can handle
James Divine: it. Yeah. What else would you associate with wearing slippers?
Katie Rempe: I love slippers. I wear them all the time. I just feel like they're Essential no matter what the season, at least for me, my phalanges and my extremities, they're always the first thing to get cold and I hate wearing shoes.
And so slippers are really where it's at for me. So talk. It is like a foundational clothing item for me
James Divine: first thing. When you get up, you just Slip into your slippers instead of putting on socks and shoes. Yeah,
Katie Rempe: so comfort for me is like the number one. And if I feel comfort on my feet, then I can concentrate on the task at hand.
Because if I have cold feet, I can't do anything. I won't be able to sleep. It must be remedied.
James Divine: What about you? I'm wearing slippers now.
Katie Rempe: There you
James Divine: go. Yeah. Yeah. I, I podcast in slippers.
Katie Rempe: And plus, traditionally in history, it's a good thing to honor your feet.
A lot of people think feet are gross, which I get. But you know, they take us everywhere. So to really treat your feet, I think is important. So that's another good way of remembering that. Honor your feet.
Edgings
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James Divine: What are other things that garter stitches handy for?
Katie Rempe: Because it is a curling deterrent, a lot of people will choose to do a project that has an edging In garter stitch to prevent curling and so like the body of the piece will be in a different stitch pattern. For example, like my little blankie pattern, it has a garter stitch border and then the inside is like a stockinette stitch dotted pattern .
James Divine: Sure, I think I've, worn garments even from the store that have a different pattern on the. edge of the sleeves. I think sometimes it's actually a ribbed pattern instead of garter. But it's this idea of like, oh yeah, I can totally see that.
Katie Rempe: Yep. And it's good for hems and things. It just has a different character than a ribbing, which ribbing is going to like suck in and be really elastic versus the garter stitch, which can itself be elastic, but generally it tends to actually have a larger stitch.
Blueprint than like a stitch. Yeah.
James Divine: Yeah, I guess the ribbing only stretches in one direction Which probably handy for the ends of sweater sleeves. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, I see.
Okay, so if it's good for edges Because it doesn't roll And it's kind of flat I think about that as like literally keeping boundaries. If you're going to do an edge of garter stitch, that's going to be really like This is my keeping boundaries scarf. Really good to wear when you're over at the in laws or at family events.
Katie Rempe: Yes. Or to put around a blanket if you're feeling like, Oh, this is just like my place.
I need to hide and just be me, just for me. These are my borders of protection. I will be under this blanket. It's great. And you can do that on a shawl. You can do that on, sweater cuffs. or hems, all sorts of options to give you those, borders that you need. Yeah,
James Divine: that's awesome. I love this adding that to your other piece and adding that magical correspondence.
Yeah.
Do you have another one?
Stripes
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Katie Rempe: My last one that I feel like garter stitch really shines at and is one of my personal favorite ways to use it is featuring stripes. So again, I'm looking at my little, uh, swatch here. This has One, two, THREE garter ridges in each stripe, and each ridge is two rows.
So the math ends up working really easily. It's a great stitch pattern to learn how to start counting your rounds or your rows because they're really easy to see. And again, if you wanted to do like crazy stripe madness, you could do one color for every ridge and have this amazing rainbow effect. Do it all on different colors.
Do it all in tones of the same color. Even just doing it all in one color and you still will have all of these amazing textural ridges. But I think stripes is just, they're so fun. So much fun
James Divine: in garter stitch. And because, garter stretches the same either direction, could you make that sweater have stripes going either up and down or across?
Or is one better than the other?
Katie Rempe: Oh. So to knit the stripes going this way instead would end up being, yep, it would end up being like a color work situation. So you'd have to hold all these colors separately and then switch in between them.
James Divine: You can't just turn the fabric sideways.
Katie Rempe: Unless it was something where you could just turn the fabric sideways.
James Divine: I noticed on the surprise, sorry, I noticed on the surprise jacket that the stripes went up and down on the body. Yes. And then at the bottom they sort of went across. So it was kind of this L shape. And I thought that was a really cool, effect.
Katie Rempe: She got really clever shaping in there. So by using, knit two togethers on certain points, that's how she was able to get that mitered square look there. So very little, effort to manipulate to make it look very special. It's brilliant.
James Divine: Yeah. So if I think about stripes, I always think about, longevity like eating long noodles at Chinese New Year is associated with longevity.
So I think about that, but I also think about stripes being a pathway that we follow and it's a way of opening the roads. If your stripes are going across instead, that could also be, protective, we always stop at lines, it's a little bit of a stop sign. So that could also be a protective type of fabric that you're making, in my mind.
But what would you, and of course we'd want to add color magic and other things to it, and intention as you knit. But what would you associate stripes with?
Katie Rempe: It could be protection or borders. Because the color you're using or maybe you only have one stripe around it And that's what's like very visually striking is you just have like one garter stripe against your whole stockinette sweater or whatever it is Yeah I also think of stripes as being like flags. There are great ways to just communicate a message even if it's just By color and you're not, you know, putting like a whole picture in there or whatever stripes are still a picture So I think that's something to be said too.
You could really communicate an interesting color coded message within just the thicknesses of the line and how many you use and what colors you're using them in?
James Divine: It's a great way to knit a flag of something like I think about the plethora of pride flags If you wanted trans pride, for instance, you could knit in those colors and do big blocks of stripes.
What a cool garment that would be.
Share Your Thoughts!
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Katie Rempe: Lots and lots of options. I just feel like, we're never gonna get to all of them. So I'm interested what other people might have. To say in terms of what kind of stitch correspondences, magical correspondences, they would give the garter stitch.
James Divine: Yeah. If only there was a way for our listeners to contribute to how could we do that? What
Katie Rempe: were you
James Divine: going to say? I was going to say, drop us an email.
Katie Rempe: Oh, you mean a [email protected] that's a good one.
James Divine: What were you thinking?
Katie Rempe: I was thinking they could also drop us a comment on any of one of our YouTube videos, including this one, which is what you're watching right now.
James Divine: Yeah, comment on the YouTube video. That's right. Of course, one of the best ways to also interact with actual Katie
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James Divine: This was such a cool conversation.
Katie Rempe: I always figure out more correspondences as we talk than I even could have considered initially. So I appreciate your collaboration as always, Jim.
James Divine: Who knew that garter stitch was so flexible?
I learned so much about this lowly stitch that I have a few swatches of in my knitting bag and thought, eh. But I'm now kind of re inspired to go back and try stuff.
Katie Rempe: Ooh, the humble knit stitch is reeling you back in.
James Divine: That's right. You'll get me every time. Well, I'm super excited About next week.
Katie Rempe: Oh, yes, spill the beans.
What are we going to talk about?
James Divine: Enchanted cables! Yeah, so this is we're gonna put some pearls in pearls of wisdom get it.
Katie Rempe: Oh, I see what you did there! Thanks for watching and Jim thanks for being here as always and we'll see you next time. Bye everybody!
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