You’ve Got Snippets: April 26, 2025

Dear knitter,

Happy Saturday!

Thanks to yesterday’s solid-gold virtual class with Michele Bernstein, we’ve come over all brioche-y all of a sudden. We are gonna brioche all the things!

If you’ve always wanted to learn brioche knitting in a friendly, fun, go-at-your-own pace way, it’s not too late. Sign up here and your order confirmation email will include a link to the recording of yesterday’s three-hour class, along with free downloads of some of our favorite brioche designs. You will have unlimited access to the recording, so jump in now, we’ll be taking the class listing down on Monday.

What’s Next?

May 9: Knitting with Color: Virtual Workshop with Ann Weaver

If you’re in a color rut, or if you ever struggle with picking colors for your projects, we have fantastic news: Ann Weaver is here to unlock the secrets to choosing colors with confidence.

Join us on Zoom for a fun 90 minutes of colorful learning.

Read more and sign up here.

On the (Near) Horizon

Are you curious about hand-sewing? Would you love to have beautiful clothes, custom made for you—by you? If so, here’s a rare opportunity. On May 28, 2025, we’re hosting a virtual embroidery workshop with the one and only Natalie Chanin.

The workshop includes a beautiful materials kit, plus your own copy of Natalie’s groundbreaking book, The Geometry of Hand-Sewing.

Read more and sign up here.

Meanwhile…

We had a big time on MDK this week.

A bidet. In the ballet. We can’t begin to capture the mondo bizarro of Franklin Habit’s latest adventure in Paris—you just have to read it.

When knitting literally saved lives: Adrienne Martini on Lucy Adlington’s new book Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust.

We have five copies of Four Red Sweaters to give away. Drop the name of the last book you read in a comment here by April 28 at midnight eastern. Winners will be randomly chosen. 

In Nashville, summer comes on in a hurry. Ashley Balding put on her pattern scout goggles and went spelunking for warm-weather sweaters.

After a five-year hiatus, we checked in on America’s favorite talking dishrag.

Rhyming verse! Whimsical illustrations! A poetry break shows us Nash Yarn Fest through the pen of Ashley Balding and the brush of Hannah Jones.

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. 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!

Explore Field Guide No. 29

It’s divine! Explore MDK Field Guide No. 29: Mosaic, with 5 smashing mosaic designs by Amy Christoffers. Read all about it here, and take a happiness break to leaf through the lookbook here.

Members of the MDK Society receive this Field Guide as part of their membership. If you haven’t yet joined, sign up here—and we’ll send your Field Guide, membership pin, and membership card right away.

You can also order your Field Guide No. 29: Mosaic à la carte, right here, in print + ebook or ebook-only editions.

To celebrate the launch of Field Guide No. 29: Mosaic, we had a grand Zoom party, with the designer herself as our special guest. Meet Amy Christoffers by watching the recording here.

A Yarn is Born

Have you heard about MDK’s collaboration with the genius hand-dyers at Madelinetosh? Read the story of Atlas x Madelinetosh here.

Knitters’ response to this yarn has been great—thank you for loving it, buying it, and most of all: knitting with it. If you haven’t done so yet, we hope check out all the great patterns we’ve knitted up in Atlas x Madelinetosh lookbook.

Even better: grab your knitting and enjoy a great Zoom conversation with the brilliant team at Madelinetosh.

Get Ready for 2026: Nash Yarn Fest Returns

Mark your calendars:

Nash Yarn Fest will return to the Fairgrounds Nashville next year!

The dates: April 17-18, 2026.

We can’t wait to throw this party again, and we hope to see you there. For a taste of the fun to come, read our recap of the 2025 festival here.

In the meantime, make sure you’re on the Nash Yarn Fest mailing list (scroll down for the signup box), so you don’t miss a thing.

Learn Hand-Sewing with One of the Greats

May 28: The Geometry of Hand-Sewing with Natalie Chanin

Are you curious about hand-sewing? Would you love to have beautiful clothes, custom made for you—by you?

If so, here’s a rare opportunity. On May 28, 2025, we’re hosting a virtual embroidery workshop with the one and only Natalie Chanin.

Read more and sign up here.

It’s the Place to Be

Have you heard about the MDK Society? It’s the knitting community we’ve dreamed about, come to real (and virtual) life. Our charter year is off to a great start, and we hope you’ll join us.

The benefits of charter membership are many—and we will be adding more fun all year long. Members save 10 percent on our wonderful virtual workshops, and in the MDK Shop, throughout 2025.

What we’re most excited about: virtual events and hangouts for Society members. Each month we put on a new episode of The Snippets Show, plus virtual knit nights, conversation in the MDK Society Lounge forum, and more.

Please take a moment to sign up now.