You’ve Got Snippets: December 7, 2024

Dear knitter,

Happy Saturday!

Can somebody check—is it really December already? We’re looking forward to the holidays, busily (not frantically) wrapping up our planning and shopping for special times and special people at year end.

We’re grateful for the support that folks have shown for MDK through your own holiday purchases from the MDK Holiday Shop. It means the world to us, and helps MDK keep on keeping on into 2025 and beyond. If you haven’t seen it yet, cozy up for a bit with our Holiday Shop lookbook (here it is!), where you’re sure to find something great, to give or to get for yourself.

Orders placed by December 12 have the best chance of arriving by December 24.

Happy reminder: MDK Field Guide Subscribers and MDK Society charter members save 10% on all full-price items in the MDK Shop, including the Holiday Shop. (Field Guide subscribers: your code was emailed to you on December 2. MDK Society members: your code appears in your order confirmation email when you joined.)

New for 2025: the MDK Society!

We’re always scheming up ways to make this virtual community as vital and connected as possible. Coming in January, the MDK Society is our vision of what a knitting community can be—online and in real life. The benefits of membership are amazing—and we will be adding more fun as the year gets going.. A hearty welcome to all the newly minted MDK Society charter members who’ve joined already!

We need you, and we will be delighted to have you—please join the MDK Society. The savings start immediately—10 percent off on our wonderful virtual workshops, and in the MDK Shop, all year long! Special MDK Society programming (surprises are already afoot!) and other benefits will begin in January.

Meanwhile…

We had a big time on MDK this week.

Ann on the irregular art of keeping a journal—and how that irregularity becomes a way to grab onto life as it passes.

Speaking of journaling, if you have regrets about missing the live Zoom of Felix Ford’s wonderful bullet journaling workshop yesterday, here’s good news. If you sign up this weekend, we’ll send you the video recording in your order confirmation email. Time with Felix is always a major lift to our spirit. But after Monday we really do have to close it down!

Can a colorwork project ever have too many colors? Kay says more is more.

See what happens when a set of simple materials and an ancient technique get into the hands of creative folks. Fun, that’s what.

Our U.K. correspondent Jeni Hankins popped up to Edinburgh to take in a show of historic embroidered gardens.

A huge treat is in store for fans of Wolf Hall. (And yes, you can knit to it, if you want to badly enough.)

Your Support Is Everything—Thank You!

At MDK, making knitters happy is all we think about, every single day. If you love what we’re doing, it’s vital—and easy—to support MDK.

One great way, of course: join the MDK Society. And also, whenever you shop with MDK, sign up for a workshop, or share our content with others, you’re directly 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 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 friend—we appreciate it so much!

The MDK Holiday Shop

We have everything your knitter’s heart desires.

Poketto Paintbox of Yarn

Discover options galore with this candy box of mini skeins—a launchpad for your next collage sweater, beginner-friendly knitting and crochet patterns, stick and stitch embroidery motifs—quite literally everything you need to begin a new project, all in one box! A perfect gift for the crafty explorer in your life.

Now on MDK

Our superfun Nash Yarn Fest merch has a new home on the MDK Shop page. Get your gear before the big day and be on the lookout—even more snazzy swag to come!

Build a Beautiful Knitting Community with Us!

The MDK Society is our vision of what a knitting community can be—online and in real life. The benefits of membership are amazing—and there are surprises in the works, too.

We need you, and we will be delighted to have you—please join the MDK Society. The savings start immediately—10 percent off on events, and in the MDK Shop all year long!

If you’re interested in our thinking behind the MDK Society, we share that here. The upshot: We want to keep MDK’s wonderful daily content freely available to all, without cheesy ads (ew) or sponsored content (nope)—and we want to focus more on knitting and fun and less on marketing.