You’ve Got Snippets: January 4, 2025

Dear knitter,

Happy Saturday!

As we welcome January and return to knowing what day of the week it is, we send you our warmest wishes for 2025.

If you’re wanting to send yourself a care package, check out the final days of our big year-end sale, doorbuster prices. Visit our Sale page and help us get ready for inventory time!

The Next Big Thing

This is a big one! Coming up on January 10, Patty Lyons has a brand-new virtual workshop for us: Beginnings and Endings. Really solid, fundamental tips and tricks. Sign up here.

Last Call on a Great Deal

This is the year of a brand-new adventure: the MDK Society. The benefits of charter membership are amazing—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 on full-price merchandise in the MDK Shop, throughout 2025.

Take a moment to sign up now and take advantage of our introductory membership price—which will go up this month. Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the leap and signed up already. Big fun ahead!

The Snippets Show! 

The first edition of The Snippets Show, the monthly MDK Society Zoom, is coming on January 8, when our special guests will be the beloved Norwegian designers and personalities Arne and Carlos. We’ll talk about knitting, Norway, and their upcoming trip to Nashville in March, when they’ll headline at Nash Yarn Fest.

The Snippets Show 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. It’s another great reason to join the MDK Society.

Meanwhile…

We had a big time on MDK this week.

Buckle your seatbelts—and gather your yarn! The most popular knitalong of the MDK year, Bang Out a Sweater, starts on January 31. If speed is your thing, you’ll have a gorgeous new Norah Gaughan cardigan by February 28—or take your time and savor every stitch of this sweet ride of a pattern.

More knitters equals more fun, so we hope you’ll join us. Read all about the knitalong here. Sign up for the three-part workshop with the great Lorilee Beltman here.

If you have the sense that we have a lot of fun events coming up soon, you’re right! Ann catches us all up here.

Twenty years a knitter—MDK’s newest contributor, Jeania Ree V. Moore, shares a rich story that will resonate with many.

Can enthusiasm substitute for experience? Claudia B. Manley begins a new year with beginner’s mind.

Adrienne Martini kicked off our new year with a fantastic new music show.

There’s nothing like knitting along to a cozy snow movie. MDK readers came through with a long list of great ones here.

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!

Coming Up in 2025: Virtual Workshops!

Coming up Jan. 10!

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: Beginnings and Endings.

Check it out and sign up here.

And Feb. 7: A Gorgeous Shawl Workshop

One of our favorite people, Ann Weaver, joins us to teach mosaic knitting. The project stopped us in our tracks when we first saw it: the Pines and Needles Shawl.

We’ve got three colorways in Ann’s own rare and delectable yarn, Plied.

Not to be missed—sign up here.

A Really Big MDK Sale!

We have what knitters want.

Heirlooms R Us

The tenderest of cotton yarns, organic and naturally dyed—we knew it had to be a very special baby blanket.

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.

 Your MDK Society membership will help us make it happen. Thank you so much.