You’ve Got Snippets: August 19, 2023

Dear knitter,

Welcome to your Saturday!

It’s MDK Gems time! It’s a simple, beautiful equation: Julia Farwell-Clay’s Sail Away shawl + Jill Draper’s Mohonk yarn + free ebook = our special offer.

Order any amount of Mohonk by the end of Tuesday, August 22, and we’ll send you a free ebook download of MDK Field Guide No. 7: Ease, a $9.95 value. The MDK pantry is down to our last skeins of this extraordinary yarn—until next year’s batch has been clipped, spun, and dyed!

Time to Pre-register for MDK Knitting Getaway 2024

Big news: pre-registration is open for the June 2024 MDK Knitting Getaway at Shakerag Workshops in Sewanee, Tennessee. Now is the time to head over here, where you’ll find a complete description of the weekend, and a form for pre-registering. Payment is not due at this point.

If we have more registrants than places, there will be a lottery for the 100 or so places available. We’re expecting a lottery this year, as we’ve had for the past five years. The last day to register is August 22, so get on it! We’d love to have you with us next June.

Meanwhile . . .

We had a big time on MDK this week.

In a poignant piece by Claudia B. Manley, an old sweater holds remembrance and renewal.

Every knitter has to do it sometime. Suzan Colon reframed the ritual of unraveling.

You’ll want to bookmark Kate Atherley’s excellent tutorial on the Tendril Necklace—including how to work that famous fork in the i-cord. Also: take 10% off Spincycle Dream State by entering the code TENDRIL at checkout—just two days left on this deal!

Kay’s three quarters of the way home on the coolest baby blanket that ever started out as a dishcloth pattern.

If you’re looking for the post that will make you feel the most seen as a knitter this week, DG Strong’s Atlas Insider is right here. Stop it, DG! Liking bags is not a crime!

Remember to enter this week’s giveaway by midnight Central time Sunday night. The prize is right on DG’s theme: a Spark Cuff and Tote Bundle and a copy of Field Guide No. 24: Spark.

As ever, we thank you for supporting this community and our beloved enterprise. Every morning, we bring the best in knitting to you, fresh and hot. We share it for free, but good content is expensive. We urge you to support what you love, and have a great shopping experience while you’re at it. Thank you for keeping us going!

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

Come Sail Away

It’s MDK Gems time! Order any quantity of Jill Draper’s Mohonk, and we’ll include a free ebook of Field Guide No. 7: Ease. (A value of $9.95.) Offer good from now through Tuesday, August 22.

Flash Sale

Olga Buraya-Kefelian’s Tendril Necklace is a knockout—and not just because it’s a quick-knit one-skein wonder! Knit up a batch of Tendrils with a special deal on Spincycle’s Dream State. Take 10% off with code TENDRIL through August 21.

Time for a Stocking!

Introducing our brand-new colorway for the Ancestral Christmas Stocking. We sold out of these crazyfast last year, so you might want to get yours now.

Summer Sock Kit

The dog days are prime time for portable, colorful, mix-and-matchable knitting. Our new Summery Sock Kit has got you covered. It’s a deluxe collection of two all-time favorite sock yarns, plus MDK Field Guide No. 11: Wanderlust and more—you’ll find it here at a very special price.

Four colorways to choose from: Mountain, Sunset, Lake, and Ocean.

Enjoy! And poke around MDK for all the sock-knitting support you could want. Here is a Jen Arnall-Culliford classic to get you started.

Tool Time

Our tools are on point! Refined essentials that are functional and pretty at the same time—tested and approved by all of us here at MDK.

STITCH WITH US

We’re more in love than ever with the hand-stitched beauty created by our visionary friend Natalie Chanin. We’re thrilled to offer you a free shipping code when you order from Alabama Chanin’s The School of Making website.

It’s simple: use the code MDKFREESHIPPING at checkout.  Want to know our own favorite kits to stitch? Here you go.

Subscribe Now

If you love our free daily knitting content, made with care, a great way to support MDK is by subscribing to the MDK Field Guides for 2023. This series of little books is at the heart of MDK. We’ll ship your copy of MDK Field Guide No. 23: Glow and MDK Field Guide No. 24: Spark immediately, and you’ll get an early copy of the next Field Guide in September!

This year’s subscription deal is more deluxe than ever: Field Guide subscribers are saving 10% in the MDK Shop. All year long. Every single time you order.

Cool Mom Texts

Treat yourself to 10% off your next order in the MDK Shop by signing up for emails and texts here. At MDK, we text unto others as we would like to be texted—not too often, and always with a light touch. Try it out! We’re grateful that you want to hear from us—thank you.