You’ve Got Snippets: December 9, 2023

Dear knitter,

Welcome to your Saturday!

How is it December 9 already? Even for a couple of last-minute, laissez-faire wild ones like us, things are getting real. We’re shifting the holiday planning into high gear, so that we can enjoy the last days of the year in comfort and joy.

Reality check: if you’d like your MDK Holiday Shop goodies to arrive by December 24, it’s time to order. After this weekend we’ll keep shipping, but it’s super smart to order now so we can get your treats on their way to you in plenty of time.

Need a little last-minute encouragement? We’ve cooked up something supercute and special.

From now through December 15, when your merchandise order totals $75 or more, you’ll get free U.S. shipping.

But wait there’s more: a gift! While supplies last, we’ll also tuck an MDK Pencil Bundle into qualifying packages. Made in Tennessee by the Musgrove Pencil Company, these are five jolly good pencils, stamped with warmest wishes from your friends at MDK.

To take advantage of the offer:

• Your order must be for $75 or more in physical merchandise. In other words, ebooks and digital products are not included. And the total needs to be $75 after applying a subscriber coupon code.

• To get the MDK Pencil Bundle, you must put it in your cart, and also enter the coupon code PENCIL at checkout. We have it on impeccable authority (DG Strong): this is the only way we can make sure your pencils get into your package.

And finally, if you’re all set for holiday shopping, but doggone it, you must have those cute pencils, they’re available for purchase.

Meanwhile . . .

We had a big time on MDK this week.

With a brand-new year cruising into view, we’re thrilled to recommend the online course that made keeping a journal a joyful mainstay of our lives: Felicity Ford’s self-paced, online bullet journaling course. Use MDK’s affiliate link to enroll for 10 percent off! (Thanks, Felix!)

Squee! Dana Williams-Johnson’s puppy is a nudist no more. Read all about Kiwi’s first handknit sweater.

It is a truth universally acknowledged: knitters love bags. Take an Ann-guided tour of The Bags of MDK.

Remember when you were a beginner? We’ve got lots of good ideas to feed a new knitter’s fierce love of knitting.

Here’s your holiday helper: Sarah Ross’s all-purpose sauce and dip that makes a great gift too!

This week’s Atlas Insider is the tale of the gray hat that wasn’t blue, and it certainly wasn’t green. And remember to enter our giveaway by 11:59 p.m. tomorrow night—it’s a fun one.

As ever, we thank you all for supporting MDK through thick and thin. Every morning, we bring the best writers, teachers, and knitting to you, for free. This is only possible because of your purchases from the MDK Shop—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

To Give and Keep

The bags we love. A deep dive of our collection shows you all eight options.

Our Tools Department will set you up with the best gizmos and gadgets and helpful little things.

Become one with watercolor! We fell in love with watercolor painting this year—so much that we have not one but two sets of watercolors for you in our MDK Shop: a very simple set and a very fine set. And a beautiful book teaches mindful painting.

MDK Gift Card. Our gift card sets up the intoxicating, wide-open horizon of shopping in the MDK Shop—for yarn and all the other amazing things we have on offer.

Delight the New Knitter

This is the time of year when we hear from folks who are shopping for the new knitters in their lives. What would a new knitter like?

We do have opinions—well-informed, road-tested opinions—about what new knitters need and want as they embark on the grand adventure:

Skill Set Box of Joy. Our all-in-one dream box has everything a new knitter needs to get started: perfect yarn, excellent tools, and our concise book, Skill Set: Beginning Knitting.

Field Guide Collection. Our ultimate rabbit hole of inspiration. A new knitter is fascinated by patterns—so many possibilities!

And (truly) (it seems like a big gift but it’s the best gift) . . . Tulip Interchangeable Needle Set.

Support What You Love

The Juiciest Subscription

This is the time of year when we ask you to support all the free daily fun at MDK—including everybody’s favorite pajama read, Snippets—by subscribing to the three MDK Field Guides we will publish in 2024.

Subscribers are the wind beneath MDK’s wings, and to show our gratitude, we’ve added more benefits for 2024 subscribers. And our special holiday shop subscription price makes this an easy decision. Subscribe here. And thank you.

Artisanal (Delicious) Treats

To give or (really) to keep for yourself. A bundle of chocolate from our favorite Nashville chocolate maker, Olive and Sinclair. The brand-new 2024 MDK Calendar Tea Towel picturing knitters doing their thing. And the best peanut butter, like, ever.