You’ve Got Snippets: December 14, 2024

Dear knitter,

Happy Saturday!

It’s almost here! Coming in January, the MDK Society is our vision of what a knitting community can be—online and in real life. The benefits of membership are considerable—and we will be adding more fun as the year gets going. The savings start immediately—members save 10 percent on our wonderful virtual workshops, and in the MDK Shop, now through 2025.

Coming Soon: Snippets Live!

Exciting news: the first edition of Snippets Live, the monthly MDK Society podcast, is coming January 8, when our special guests will be the beloved Norwegian designers Arne and Carlos.

Yes! Arne and Carlos!

We can’t wait to reunite with our old friends to talk about knitting, Norway, and their upcoming trip to Nashville in March 2025, when they will be the headliners at Nash Yarn Fest. Time with Arne and Carlos is always sheer delight.

The Snippets Live podcast is exclusive to MDK Society members, with the live Zoom taking place at noon Eastern on January 8, and the video recording going out to all MDK Society members shortly thereafter.

No need to sign up! Just mark your calendars, and look for the email we’ll send to all MDK Society members with the Zoom link.

Introductory Pricing Ends Soon

We need you in the MDK Society, and we will be delighted to have you. Join by December 31 to take advantage of our introductory price—it will go up in January. Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the leap and signed up already. We are working hard to make you glad you did!

It’s Go Time for Holiday Delivery

We’re grateful for the support that folks have shown for MDK through your purchases from the MDK Holiday Shop. It means the world to us, and helps MDK keep on keeping on into 2025 and beyond. If you haven’t seen it yet, cozy up for a bit with our Holiday Shop lookbook (here it is!), where you’re sure to find something great, to give or to get for yourself.

To have the best chance of receiving your order by December 24, now is the time! Orders received over the weekend will go out on Monday and Tuesday.

Meanwhile…

We had a big time on MDK this week.

In the latest installment of her Life with Wool column, Clara Parkes celebrates the homespun pleasures of maker’s month.

Serial swatcher Jillian Moreno on the well-loved, road-tested set of her favorite interchangeable needles.

SUCH FUN: doodling with Dana Williams-Johnson.

If you’re craving the saltiest, crunchiest potato-chip knitting, Kay found it.

Welcome winter with indoor fireworks, also known as dyeing your own yarn.

Atlas Insider Ashley Balding is our favorite alchemist of oddball yarn combinations. Her latest sweater is a summer-into-fall winner.

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!

Our Next Virtual Workshop

One of our favorite questions is: what’s next? This is a big one! Coming up on January 10, Patty Lyons has a brand-new virtual workshop for us.

Check it out and sign up here.

The MDK Holiday Shop

We have what knitters want.

Poketto Paintbox of Yarn

Discover options galore with this candy box of mini skeins—a launchpad for your next collage sweater, beginner-friendly knitting and crochet patterns, stick and stitch embroidery motifs—quite literally everything you need to begin a new project, all in one box! A perfect gift for the crafty explorer in your life.

Now on MDK

Our superfun Nash Yarn Fest merch has a new home on the MDK Shop page. Get your gear before the big day and be on the lookout—even more snazzy swag to come!

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.