You’ve Got Snippets: January 11, 2025

Dear knitter,

Happy Saturday!

The new year has come roaring in, and it’s chock full of knitting fun from the start. Stick with us—there’s never a dull moment.

This is the year of a brand-new adventure: the MDK Society. The benefits of charter membership are many—and we will be adding more fun all year. Members save 10 percent on our wonderful virtual workshops, and on full-price merchandise in the MDK Shop, throughout 2025.

Last Call on a Great Deal

Take a moment to sign up now and take advantage of our introductory membership price—which will go up this month. Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the leap and signed up already. Big fun ahead!

The Snippets Show! 

The monthly MDK Society Zoom made its world premiere on Wednesday. A variety show—about knitting! The highlight was a conversation with our special guests Arne and Carlos, the beloved Norwegian designers.

The Snippets Show is exclusive to MDK Society members, and it’s another great reason to join the MDK Society. Join now for immediate access to the video recording with Arne and Carlos, and to attend all the Snippets Shows to come.

Meanwhile…

We had a big time on MDK this week.

Yesterday we hosted a mind-blowing Patty Lyons workshop full of genius tips and tricks on starting and ending your knitting projects.

If you have regrets about missing the live workshop, here’s good news: sign up this weekend, and we’ll send you the video recording and handout in your order confirmation email. Time with Patty always raises the bar on our knitting. But on Monday we really do have to close it down!

What did the nation’s most prolific sweater knitter make in 2024? See Dana Williams-Johnson’s recap of her year in sweaters and her preview for 2025.

Get ready! The most popular knitalong of the MDK year, Bang Out a Sweater, begins January 31.

Read all about the knitalong here. Sign up for the three-part workshop with the great Lorilee Beltman here. The workshop is optional, but three sessions with Lorilee is an incredible opportunity—last year’s participants raved about the experience. And as always with an MDK knitalong: all yarns are welcome.

O noes—do you suffer from lumpy tails? Patty Lyons shares tips on knitting in tails.

Kate Atherley does a deep dive on the beloved long-tail cast-on.

Kay needed help. Stripes and a big dog saved her.

If you read or listen to one book this year, Ann says this is the one.

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 Next Big Thing

A Gorgeous Shawl Workshop on Feb 7!

One of our favorite people, Ann Weaver, joins us to teach mosaic knitting. The project stopped us in our tracks when we first saw it: the Pines and Needles Shawl.

We’ve got three colorways in Ann’s own rare and delectable yarn, Plied.

Not to be missed—sign up here.

This March: A Gathering of Knitters in Nashville

Tickets are now on sale for Nash Yarn Fest, coming March 14-15, 2025. Check out the NYF website to get a peek at our growing vendor list—it’s juicy!

Nash Yarn Fest will be a time to celebrate everything we love about the knitting world, in a beautiful venue in the heart of friendly, fascinating Nashville.

To learn, to shop, to be entertained, to hang out and make new friends and reunite with dear ones.

Above all, Nash Yarn Fest is going to be a party for the ages.

To keep up with vendors, events, tickets, and news, sign up for Nash Yarn Fest updates here.

Joy in a Box

The ultimate starter kit of knitting essentials. Beautiful materials that make knitting a joy: Atlas yarn, needles and notions, a tape measure, and a notions bag. Plus—Skill Set: Beginning Knitting to start your journey with ease.

A Few Left

The ultimate stack of knitting inspo: The MDK Field Guide Collection is all 28 Field Guides in both print and ebook editions. That’s more than 50% off the single-copy price.

Looking for a Bargain?

Hop over to the MDK Sale page.

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.

 Your MDK Society membership will help us make it happen. Thank you so much.