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- Hello, knot magic, this is a video
that I'm actually very surprised I didn't make forever ago
because knot magic is one of my favorite ways
to execute a spell
and it's just versatile.
If you have been on my channel
or if you have followed me for a while,
then you'll know that I personally just like things
that are simple, versatile, effective, and efficient
and knot magic kind of hits all of those things.
It's also very lowkey in case you are practicing
in secret at the moment
and knot magic was one of those things
that I used a lot in my practice and still do,
but especially when I wasn't open about my practice.
I started crocheting and sewing at a very young age.
One of my grandmothers taught me how to crochet
at seven or eight
and I just remember being obsessed
with this repetitive thing, it was meditative.
I could put intention into it very easily,
so that was kind of the first thing that sparked it.
And then on top of that,
I also had my other grandmother.
She was really big into quilting and embroidery.
Those were also very repetitive things
and you can create so much with just having that skill.
I made a couple of my own pieces of clothing
or some blankets and bags
and random little things around my home.
I'm not gonna tell you that I'm amazing at it.
I will just say that I can do it.
I can work around some things with some trial and error.
No matter where you are skill level with any of those things
you can still implement it into your practice.
It's not about making it look pretty.
The idea of knot magic, right?
Is every knot that you make
or every stitch that you make
are thinking about that intention
or a lot of people like to chant the intention
if they have a chant.
And I would prefer to make this a short thing, right?
Like I am protected, something very short.
It's not a full sentence or multiple things.
You'll see also there are things on the internet
like by knot of one, my spell is begun.
By knot of two, I bind you.
By knot of three, leave me be.
On the internet, there's also different ones.
If there's only a certain amount of knots,
depends on the spell.
Depends on your intention.
Just depends on your skill level
and how intricate you wanna make it.
Again, like I said,
knot magic is effective no matter
if you're literally only just tying a knot
with one string nine times
or if you're making a full-ass quilt.
And it allows you so much creative freedom,
so it doesn't matter if you love sewing
or making bracelets or whatever,
but it's so easy
but you can also make it so intricate.
So I absolutely adore that piece of knot magic.
It's also really accessible.
It's not something that you need all of this stuff for.
So you'll see I'm gonna be working
on a protection bracelet charm thing.
I just want something that I can keep on me at all times.
I am a pole dancer so you don't wanna wear rings
while you're pole dancing
'cause it scratches the poles.
I want to make something that is easily moveable.
It's not going to snag on anything.
I can keep it on basically all the time until it breaks.
So first off, like I said,
when you're doing knot magic
it's the idea of putting the intention into every stitch
or into every knot.
It doesn't have to be that rhymey thing.
If that's something that you're into
which I personally, I do love rhymes
and I do love the poems,
but for the most part in my practice unless it's something,
unless it's a spell that I'm continuously going back to
and have created a poem
or have used a chant, spell, poem, thing from somebody else,
for the most part I just say my intention
in the most simple, direct way that I can.
With knot magic, that's one of the biggest things
is you want your intention
as direct and as short as possible
because for the most part,
you're going to be either saying
or thinking the same thing
and the same intention for every knot
or for every stitch.
This isn't to say if you make a quilt, right?
It's not going to be,
you can have different intentions
with the bigger the project is
because the bigger spells are,
more likely the more blanketed the energy is
on a situation or on a person anyway.
With this, this is the simplest spell ever.
Negative energies, protect me from negative entities.
Protect me from the evil eye.
Protect me from jealousy, protect, whatever.
Whatever you want that to be,
you can add those little specific things in there.
But that's kind of the general idea of knot magic
is the intention is repeated in some form or another.
The way that I'm making this one,
I'm probably just gonna braid it
or do something super, super simple.
I really don't think
that I'm gonna be doing anything insanely complicated.
And if you wanna step it up just a little bit,
I've also created those friendship bracelets
and you can just type in
into YouTube friendship bracelet patterns,
and there's all these different patterns
and they walk you through it.
And it is very repetitive, it's very meditative,
so I think that that helps with the execution of the spell.
And all these little patterns,
I've seen ones with little hearts.
So if you're working
on being kinder to yourself or attracting love,
you can use that.
Like I said, I'm doing very simple knots.
You can do the friendship bracelet patterns.
You can make full jewelry pieces if you want to.
And when I used to have long hair,
I would weave little pieces into my hair
'cause then it was hidden,
but it was also there all the time.
That would be part of the spell.
You could also do it with your hair
because I would also implement knot magic
into if I was braiding my hair.
Then if we're moving onto something like stitching, right?
Every stitch would be that intention.
So you could use this
especially if you wanted to do that with a sigil.
You can kind of do an embroidery type of sigil
and then either sew it
onto a piece of clothing that you already have
or you can sew it into the inside of a pocket
or someplace that wouldn't be seen.
I suppose you can sew a small sigil
onto just the piece of clothing itself.
This is a blanket that I made that I crocheted.
Each of the stitches, right?
As I pulled the string through, the yarn through,
my intention was imbued into it.
So every stitch or at least mostly every stitch
'cause I'm sure I got distracted somewhere in here,
but every stitch in this blanket
has the same intention imbued into it.
And if you want this pattern,
it's called the brick stitch.
I'll put it up there down in the description,
where I found the pattern
but it's really easy.
So quilting, it depends
because some people feel
that if they're not hand stitching every stitch,
then the intention isn't imbued
which in my personal opinion, I kind of agree
just because with the machine,
it goes so quickly that how are you gonna
put it into every stitch?
And there's thousands of stitches.
There's just no way unless your hand stitching
which if you do that, godspeed.
But I'm not doing that.
So with quilting, with something like that,
you can do the decorative stitches by hand on the squares
and add your intention into that
or do sigils or whatever you wanna do.
Or you can even add cloth embroidery sigils
and put them behind the actual quilt,
between the quilt and the batting
and then actually sew the whole quilt together
which is what I did with my nephew's quilt.
And I mean, that was a teeny little quilt
but I added in little protection things
and just general cleansing and whatever.
So that would be a good example as well.
You can also, if you make,
either if you make clothes
but also if you make stuffed animals,
that's a really good way to sew
your intention into something and gift it
or keep it, whenever you want.
Gift it to nieces and nephews,
your children, other people, whatever
and that's a really good way to do that in a lowkey way.
And then lastly, macrame.
And if you saw my room tour,
there's this stick above me
that has some macrame pieces on it
and that's all knot magic as well.
The actual designs, again, I definitely did not do amazing
but you can't really tell
and the mistakes add to the aesthetic.
I got some good decorations out of it
so it's good for home protection spells
or even if you are hanging a plant that maybe you work with,
some kind of ally
or a plant that you use in your practice at all,
and you can hang it in that macrame planner.
Or just make a macrame wall hanging
and weave other things into it.
There's so many things that you can do with knot magic.
As I said before,
this is such an easy and accessible way to execute spells
or just charge something with your intention
and not have it be wildly obvious that you're practicing
or that you're doing something that's considered witchy,
or it's not off-putting to people
who don't understand or don't practice.
Some of my favorite ways that I've used knot magic
or I've watched and seen other people
implement knot magic into their practice,
clearly the bracelets, bracelets are super easy to make
and they don't really take a lot of time.
They're also really inconspicuous
and they can stay on you as a protection
or attraction type of spell
all the time until they break off of course.
And there also is that idea of once the spell,
or once the spell is either completed
or if your protection is broken,
then the bracelet will come off.
Macrame is a great way to make really pretty decorations
but also make really gorgeous home decor,
and also they work really well as gifts.
If you crochet, if you knit, if you sew, then those are,
or if you embroider,
then those all are really wonderful ways
to implement knot magic
and really imbue your specific projects with your intention
or just embroidering sigils into pieces of clothing
or into charms that you can carry.
As I've said in this video plenty of times already,
I love knot magic.
It's versatile, it's easy, it's efficient.
It's straightforward and it's accessible.
So try it out.
See how it works for you.
If you wanna share any of your knot magic creations
or knot magic ideas,
then I'd love to know
because like I said, it's versatile
and so the things that people come up with
is super fascinating and really awesome.
So share that, you can either share it on the discord.
It's linked down below
or I follow the hashtag #wonderlustcoven on Instagram.
So if you use it
and make sure to spell with an O, not an A,
but if you use that it will come up on my feed
and hopefully I can see some of your awesome creations
because I get to see a lot of your money bowls so far,
and that's kind of amazing.
But I hope that you enjoyed this video
on 101, a crash course on knot magic.
But I hope that this helped.
I hope that you end up loving knot magic as much as I do
and like I said, I'd love to see your projects.
But that's it for this video.
As always thanks so much for watching, I'm Olivia.
Best of luck, be kind to each other,
and may your gods treat you as you've treated others, bye.