You’ve Got Snippets: July 20, 2024

Dear Knitter,

Happy Saturday!

Thanks for tuning in for your weekly serving of Snippets. We never tire of hearing from knitters who read Snippets every Saturday in their PJs. Putting together Snippets (sometimes in PJs ourselves) is our favorite weekly project—for almost ten years now! We never take your readership for granted, and we never clutter up our beautiful content with ads.

You’re a part of Snippets, too! Collecting the MDK Field Guides is a great way to support Snippets and all of MDK’s free daily content, and we have a nifty way of building your own bundle of these little books at a very nice savings.

A Treat for Your Feet, Extended!

By popular demand, our latest MDK Gems offer, celebrating the Field Guide that started our sock obsession, has been extended for two more days, through Sunday night.

Here’s our special deal: when you order any quantity of two special sock yarns, we’ll email you a free ebook for Field Guide No. 11: Wanderlust.

These two fingering weight yarns are forever favorites: Neighborhood Fiber Co. Organic Studio Sock and Zauberball Crazy. We love the socktacular color of these babies.

Field Guide No. 11: Wanderlust is one of our most popular Field Guides. Wendy Bernard explains the basics of fingering-weight sock making—toe up, cuff down—with a set of 13 knit-purl stitch patterns to mix and match for endlessly beautiful results with fingering-weight sock yarns.

If you’re having fun with the DK-weight socks of our new Field Guide No. 27: Sock Odyssey, you’ll love Wanderlust. They make perfect companions in your handmade sock journey.

Please be sure to order by Sunday, July 21.

Big Event News

Have you heard? On September 6, 2024, we’re hosting a virtual workshop with the legendary Natalie Chanin.

Opportunities to learn the Alabama Chanin method of hand-sewing from Natalie herself are rare, and we’re over the moon to offer this workshop. For all the details, and to register, click here.

Subscribe and Save

A reminder for MDK Field Guide subscribers: save 10 percent on virtual events when you enter the subscriber coupon code we emailed you on July 1.

Meanwhile…

We had a big time on MDK this week.

If you adore the mood and palette of Field Guide No. 27: Sock Odyssey as much as we do, you’ll love the favorite artist who inspired Fatimah Hinds.

It’s schvitzing season, time for Jillian Moreno to take a deep dive into cool Creative Linen.

Things are not always OK in our lives, but we can be OK inside. Suzan Colón lets knitting lead the way. (Recommended: spend some time in the comments on this one.)

Ann found hope in an unlikely place. 

Looking for a quick, cool  project this weekend? Slice and dice a t-shirt with MDK’s own Ashley Balding—you’ll be glad you did.

Your Support Is Everything—Thank You!

At MDK, supporting and elevating the knitting life is all we think about, every single day. It’s vital—and easy—to support MDK!

When you shop with MDK, take a workshop, and share our content with your knitting friends, you’re also supporting the yarnmakers, artisans, teachers, and writers that we feature here. It’s a daily challenge to make our tiny business go, and we’re grateful to everyone who helps us do that. Thank you!

Questions? Email us anytime at hello@moderndailyknitting.com, and you’ll get a prompt personal response from a real live MDK person.

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

Love,

Ann and Kay

PS Please forward this Snippets to a knitter—we appreciate it so much!

Summer of Socks

This summer is all about the joys of sock knitting. Explore the plethora of sock yarns, field guides, and patterns we offer here at MDK—endless fun awaits!

MDK Field Guide No. 11: Wanderlust. The Field Guide that started our sock obsession. 13 knit-purl stitch patterns. Perfectly paired with two long-time favorite yarns of MDK knitters: Neighborhood Fiber Co. Organic Studio Sock and Zauberball Crazy.

The special MDK Gems deal? When you order any quantity of these yarns, we’ll email you a free PDF ebook for Field Guide No. 11: Wanderlust. And remember! Field Guide subscribers save 10% when using the monthly coupon code we emailed you on July 1.

Field Guide No. 27

MDK Field Guide No. 27: Sock Odyssey. DK weight yarns. Clever cables and intriguing techniques. Explore the stunning yarns and designs featured in Field Guide No. 27 below.

We’ve always got something going on at MDK—and we want you to know about it! Keep up to date with all of the happenings on our Events page, right here.