You’ve Got Snippets: March 4, 2023

Dear knitter,

Welcome to your Saturday! 

We’ve got springtime flowers on our minds and Amy Christoffers’s Pressed Flowers Cowl on our needles. If this beautiful viral knit has captured your imagination, we are here to set you up for glory. 

The Pressed Flowers Cowl makes the most of a rare yarn like Spincycle Dream State. For the large cowl (because more wrappiness = more happiness), order 3 skeins of Atlas (for the main color) and 2 skeins of Dream State (for the flowers). You’ll find beautiful color combinations here. 

Author, Author! Join Us on Monday

We’re excited about our upcoming conversation with Peggy Orenstein, the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater. Knitters are loving this book! It’s Monday, March 6, 4:00 pm Eastern. Join us at the free Zoom event here. Needless to say: bring your knitting.

Meanwhile . . .

We had a big time on MDK this week. 

It’s a tale of two cities (and two socks) in Franklin Habit’s latest letter from Paris. 

The next stop on Ann’s virtual trip to Norway, via knitting, is a simplified version of Arne & Carlos’s fantastic Rosy Mittens. 

This week we welcomed two new contributors to MDK: Vicki Mothes, who made it with Atlas, and it’s one of the most joyful pieces we’ve ever seen; and Jeni Hankins, who took us on a knitter’s day trip to one of our favorite cities, Edinburgh.

Warm up your weekend with Sarah Ross’s crispy chickpea jumble. 

You’ll love knitting to this: Joji Locatelli’s inspiring keynote speech at Vogue Knitting Live, The Story of a Knitter. 

Remember to enter this week’s giveaway by midnight Central time Sunday night. Five lucky knitters will win the Joji Locatelli pattern of their choice.

If you’re new to MDK, welcome. Our mission is to elevate the knitting life, by providing new content daily, plus exciting designers, friendly community, and a first-class shopping experience. Questions? Email us anytime at hello@moderndailyknitting.com, and you’ll get a prompt personal response from Nathan or Kay.

Stay healthy, take care of each other, and knit on.

Love,

Ann and Kay

Flower Power

Brand new and irresistible—Amy Christoffers’s wildly popular Pressed Flowers motif arrives in a cowl design and Ann Shayne wants us all on board.

Ann chose Dream State by Spin Cycle in Salty Dog and Atlas in Leek for her Pressed Flowers Cowl. Here are more of our current favorite combos:

For specific color combinations, see Ann’s post right here.

Or make your own—the options are nearly limitless! You’ll need three skeins of Atlas for the main color, two skeins of Dream State for flowers.

Take Your Temperature

If this is your year to knit a temperature blanket, you’re in good company. Kay had so much fun last year that she’s doing it again in 2023. 

We’ll be here all year, cheering you on in the MDK Lounge, where your fellow temperature blanketeers are full of ideas, opinions, and advice.

Our popular Temperature Blanket Starter Packs make the hard part—picking colors—easy. Each pack has 11 or 22 vibrant skeins of Rowan Felted Tweed. Plus: you’ll save 10 percent off the single-skein price.

Practical + Cute

These sweet, mod markers from Allstitch Studio touched the place in our hearts where Mary Quant and Orla Kiely are dancing the pony on Carnaby Street. Now, in a wee drawer box with 80 colorful stitch markers!

Subscribe Now

If you love your weekly date with Snippets, we invite you to support us by subscribing to the MDK Field Guides for 2023. This series of little books is at the heart of MDK.

We’ll ship your copy of MDK Field Guide No. 23: Glow now, and you’ll be all set to receive early copies of the next two Field Guides.

This year’s subscription deal is more deluxe than ever: Field Guide subscribers save 10% in the MDK Shop. Every single time you order.

Sale Favorites

There are always beautiful bargains on the MDK sale page, and we just listed more! If any of these go missing, check Kay’s secret stash at MDK Headquarters.

So much zing—a breathtakingly beautiful cyanotype book, mesmerizing Ombré Merino Lace—now at 20% off!—and simply dazzling hand dyed shades of Barnyard Knits.

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Treat yourself to 10% off your next order in the MDK Shop by signing up for emails and texts here. At MDK, we text unto others as we would like to be texted—not too often, and always with a light touch. Try it out! We’re grateful that you want to hear from us—thank you.