Books
Make Your Own Bundle, Your Own Way
One of the best things we ever thought up was Make Your Own Field Guide Bundle. High five, Ann Shayne!
This pick & mix bundle-builder is a way to build your collection of deliciously collectible little books about knitting, the MDK Field Guides—at a tasty savings.
Make Your Own Bundle is a handy, cost-effective way to catch up with the series, and fill in any awkward gaps on your bookshelf or coffee table.
But if you’re new to the Field Guides, how can you possibly choose among the 27 Field Guides we’ve published? We’ve got some answers for you.
The Ultimate
The easiest way, and the way that shows the utmost support and love to the experiment in free daily publishing and knitting community that is MDK: get them all.
Whenever somebody bundles up the whole series of Field Guides, not only does an angel get its wings, but every person on Team MDK does a spontaneous Pink Pony Club dance. It’s a big thrill for us to see that a knitter has both discovered the Field Guides for the first time, and embraced them with both arms. We made them for you, with all the love in the world, and we appreciate the encouragement so much.
But if you’ve already got some Field Guides, here are other ways to Build! That! Bundle!
Start Here: the MDK Patterns Page
The mighty MDK Patterns page is a great place to start. It’s especially nice when you have a leisurely half hour to browse all the designs we’ve published in 27 beautiful Field Guides. If you’re new to our eclectic world of world-class knitwear designers, you’re in for a treat (and a possible overdose of joy).
And if you’ve been following along since Field Guide No. 1, we bet there are designs you’ve forgotten about that you will fall in love with all over again. You always meant to make that one! And that one!
Click on any pattern as you browse, and that opens up a page full of information: yarn, sizing, yardage requirements—and the all-important link to the Field Guide in which that pattern appears. Make a note of it, then go to the Make Your Own Field Guide Bundle page, and check off that Field Guide.
When you’ve browsed your fill and selected at least three Field Guides on the Make Your Own Field Guide Bundle page, the discount is automatically applied, and you’re all set to head to checkout.
The ebook edition of every Field Guide you’ve selected will be included in your order confirmation email, so you can dig in right away, while the print editions make their way to your mailbox.
Start Here: Look for the Skill Builders
Each Field Guide has a theme. Sometimes a Field Guide is an exciting point of entry into a knitting technique that’s new to you. We love to learn new things in knitting, and we insist that in the process of learning, we get to make beautiful things—and have fun.
Here are Field Guides that we offer up proudly as mini-textbooks on techniques that will elevate your knitting life. We think of them as primers with projects, where you learn a new technique by actually using it. Having a beautiful project on your needles helps you get good at a technique real quick!
Brioche
Field Guide No. 21: Brioche (designer: Nancy Marchant).
Intarsia
Field Guide No. 16: Painterly (designer: Kaffe Fassett)
Log Cabin Knitting
Field Guide No. 4: Log Cabin (designers: Ann Weaver and Kay Gardiner)
Marling
Field Guide No. 19: Marls (designer: Cecelia Campochiaro)
Sequence Knitting
Field Guide No. 5: Sequences (designer: Cecelia Campochiaro)
Socks
Field Guide No. 27: Sock Odyssey (designer: Fatimah Hinds)
Field Guide No. 11: Wanderlust (designer: Wendy Bernard)
Start Here: Color Me Beautiful
One more idea, perfect for those of us who choose a wine based on the label: pick your Field Guides by color.
Details on the designers and patterns in all 27 MDK Field Guides can be found on the Make Your Own Field Guide Bundle page. For now, we encourage you to take a peek and pick your favorites.
This is very helpful. I have many of the field guides that I purchased when I learned about MDK. However, I had no idea how many existed or the sequence of when a new one came out. This was very helpful.
These would make lovely gifts for a knitter friend, for birthday, holiday, thank you or appreciation gift. I reference mine all the time.
While they are the perfect carrying size many times I copy off the pattern to GBO more compact, it fits well on my printer bed.
I feel very lucky that I’ve been on the MDK and have been lucky enough to collect the Field Guides as they have been published. Trying to choose now would be tough. They are all special.
I purchased the full bundle right after FG 16 was published, and I’ve been a subscriber ever since! It’s been so fun to try new patterns and techniques as they are published. My current goal is to make something from every single Field Guide, going back to the beginning. Only 4 more to go!
Holly! This comment makes my day! 4 more!
Wait till you see what I’m making out of the Atlas I just ordered!
I have the full set and read them like novels when trying to pick the pattern for yarn from my stash. I have two of the slipcases but several issues ago outgrew those. Are you going to bring the slipcases back. They are a big help to keeping me organized.
Storage options are a repeating subject at MDK HQ; it’s unlikely the old slipcases will reappear (they’re surprisingly difficult to ship inexpensively and safely), but we’re always trying to come up with something!