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You’ve Got Snippets: September 14, 2024
Dear Knitter,
Happy Saturday!
The glorious day has finally arrived! We’re delighted to present to you MDK Field Guide No. 28: Renewal.
Sweater season is sacred to us, so we enlisted the best in the business: Norah Gaughan.
Norah has given us three elegant, easeful cardigans—plus two smashing accessories for the instant-gratification crowd.
Read all about these brand-new designs here.
And pick your yarns with our shoppable, lovely lookbook for this Field Guide, right here. We’ve brought in lush new palettes that are perfect for these designs.
SOS: Subscribers Only Save
Remember, Field Guides subscribers save 10 percent in the MDK Shop. This Field Guide stars Jane and Felted Tweed held with Kidsilk Haze, so this is an excellent moment to jump in! You’ll have a great project to knit and a wonderful cardigan that’s ready in time for the first breath of fall.
More Fun Ahead
Our next great virtual workshop will be here soon. On October 11, learn intarsia with one of its great teachers, designer Florence Spurling. This virtual workshop features the beautifully manageable motifs of Florence’s stunning Elvan Shawl.
We’re offering a gorgeous kit, or you can opt to bring your own yarn and take the class by itself. Read all about it and sign up here.
Meanwhile …
We had a big time on MDK this week.
We had such a jolly, inspiring Zoom with Norah Gaughan yesterday. Grab your knitting and watch (or re-watch) it here.
The City of Light with its bra off, swatching for colorwork, and altering a pullover to avoid looking like a ham smuggler—all this and more in Franklin Habit’s latest letter from Paris.
For Suzan Colón, sometimes the joy of a knitting pattern is in not following it.
Atlas Insider Ashley Balding made a sea-swept summer sweater in one of our all-time favorite all-season yarns, Rowan’s Creative Linen.
Gussy up your coffee table: the launch of a new Field Guide is a great time to fill in any gaps in your Field Guide collection—at a nice savings!
What did Ann do with all those leftover bits of our new Jane yarn?
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
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Explore MDK Field Guide No. 28: Renewal
The New Lookbook Is Here!
The yarns for this Field Guide are really beautiful, and we want you to get to them as easily as possible. Thus: a brand-new, shoppable lookbook for you.
Jump right in and plan for sweater weather, right here.
Learn Intarsia
Please join us on October 11 for this exciting workshop with Florence Spurling. Intarsia is one of the most creative knitting techniques—it’s like painting with yarn. Her Elvan Shawl is perfect for learning the technique—and we have an optional yarn kit too. Sign up for our exciting virtual workshop, right here!
Meet Our Teacher
Florence Spurling is that amazing combination of designer and teacher.
Originally from Oxfordshire, England, she trained in London where she received a Masters in Textile Design from The Royal College of Art. Florence is passionate about creating unique, tactile, and desirable fabrics that display her love of detail and craftsmanship.
Jane is Here!
Who’s Jane? She’s our brand-new, MDK-exclusive, DK-weight yarn.
One hundred percent British wool, made in Yorkshire.
To see Jane knitted up into 15 of the most beautiful patterns out there, take a leisurely stroll through our fabulous Jane lookbook. It’s the ultimate Pattern Scout!
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I love the Bolin cardigan in the new field guide! It’s really hard to figure out pairings of the Felted Tweed and Kidsilk Haze online. It would be very cool if you could show some possible combinations to help us see what you think would work. Thanks!
Whoops! Just saw you did just that in the Look Book. I should have known you’d have it covered.
; )