You’ve Got Snippets: April 5, 2025

Dear knitter,

Happy Saturday!

It’s here! Our new baby, our spring chicken: MDK Field Guide No. 29: Mosaic, with five smashing 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 yesterday, with the designer herself as our special guest. Meet Amy Christoffers by watching the recording here. This event is free.

New Class! New Class!

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.

On May 9, join us for a fun 90 minutes of colorful learning with designer and teacher Ann Weaver. This will be a virtual class on Zoom, and yes—it will be recorded.

Read on for all the details and to reserve your place right here.

Meanwhile…

We had a big time on MDK this week.

We might have to lock up the sample for Amy Christoffers’s Waffle Pullover—everybody wants one, but they’re just going to have to knit their own! Amy has such a knack for combining interesting texture with an easy-to-wear shape. Mark our words: this is the sweater of the year.

Amy’s inspiration for Field Guide No. 29 is quilts—the Ocean Waves Cowl is the quiltiest! It’s also an opportunity to play with one of our favorite color-shifting yarns from Freia.

MDK’s First Knitter, Nell Ziroli, always goes her own way. See what she did with Field Guide No. 29.

Good luck prying Ann and Kay off the sofa today—we’re knitting for 12 hours for Knit for Food, a fundraising knit-a-thon that is more important this year than ever. Lock arms with your fellow knitters to support this inspiring effort here—every dollar makes a difference.

It’s so much more than a mere marathon. 

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!

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 you’ll spend time with our 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.

Merch Madness

Great Virtual Workshops Ahead

April 11: Mending Made Easy: Virtual Workshop with Kate Atherley

With Kate Atherley we are in good hands. A veteran designer, teacher, knitter, and wearer of handknits, she’s seen it all, and she is ready to share no-nonsense mending techniques to save our knits. We’ll leave no longer intimidated by the holes being worn into our socks, because we can mend anything with ease.

Read more and sign up here.

April 25: Brioche Beginnings: Virtual Workshop with Michele Bernstein

The class you’ve been asking us for! Please join us for an afternoon of fun and learning with wonderful designer and teacher Michele Bernstein. Your brioche adventure begins here, much fun ahead.

Read more and sign up here.

May 28: The Geometery 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 an incredible 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 knit nights, conversation in the MDK Society Lounge forum, and more.

Our special guest at the next Snippets Show on Wednesday, April 9 will be the one and only Jeanette Sloan, star judge and mentor on the BBC/Britbox Series Make It at Market, and featured designer for MDK Field Guide No. 15: Open. It’s not every day we get to have a chinwag with a recipient of the British Empire Medal!

Please take a moment to sign up now.

 

Make Your Own Field Guide Bundle

Here’s a fun thing: we have 28 Field Guides in our collection—delectable, small excursions into all sorts of beautiful knitting from a who’s who of designers.

Order 3 or more Field Guides, and you’ll save 15%.

It’s conceivable to make a bundle of all 28, just sayin. Have a peek now.

Looking for a Bargain?

Hop over to the MDK Sale page.