Snippets
You’ve Got Snippets: March 15, 2025
Dear knitter,
Happy Saturday!
As you read this, Ann and Kay and every member of Team MDK are running around the Nashville Fairgrounds—meeting, greeting, and supporting vendors and attendees at our first-ever Nash Yarn Fest. If you’re at the Fairgrounds today, say hi! If you’re not there, stay tuned for a full report on MDK, and think about joining us next year. We’d love to have you.
If you’re in town it’s not too late to get yourself a ticket now—and we’ll be selling them at the door, so come on over! Read all about this beautiful opportunity for good times with our beloved knitting community on the Nash Yarn Fest website.
A New Workshop with Natalie Chanin!
We heard you, and thanks to our friends at the School of Making, we’re thrilled to give the people what they want: a class with the great Natalie Chanin that focuses on embroidery, using her revolutionary—and surprisingly simple—grid stitching cards.
Join us on May 28 for a 3-hour virtual workshop with Natalie. This workshop is loaded: it includes a beautiful materials kit, plus your own copy of Natalie’s groundbreaking book, The Geometry of Hand-Sewing. Read all about it, and sign up here.
Meanwhile …
We had a big time on MDK this week.
A warm welcome to MDK’s newest contributor, Amy Snell, who has the answer to everything that bugs you about colorwork. Do tell, Amy, do tell!
The princess and the fleece: Clara Parkes on how—and why—she gradually transformed her bedtime into a wonderland of wool.
Jeni Hankins climbed a fuzzy family tree in search of connections between Dales and Sanquhar glove-knitting traditions.
How to manage mood swings by bingeing two very different series.
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!
Great Virtual Workshops Ahead
March 28: Medknitation: Virtual WorkShop with Suzan Colón
A 90-minute workshop with Suzan Colón, a wonderful Yoga and meditation instructor, author, and knitter/crocheter. We love her way of combining elements of traditional meditation with meditative knitting.
Your registration includes the ebook edition of Suzan’s book, MedKNITation, with 30 meditations for you to use after the workshop.
Check it out and sign up here.
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.
Nash Yarn Fest is TODAY!
Today’s the day we get to welcome over 90 vendors—and a throng of happy knitters—to Nashville for our first-ever Nash Yarn Fest. It’s not too late to get yourself a ticket now—and we’re selling them at the door, so come on down!
In case you missed it, photographer Gale Zucker—who specializes in making real people look really fabulous in their handknits—has brought her professional photo booth to Nash Yarn Fest. Walk-ins welcome—look for her in booth 101, by the door to the food trucks!
Off to a Roaring Start
2025 is the year of a brand-new adventure: the MDK Society. 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’ll put on a new edition of the Snippets Show, featuring special guests and coming to you via Zoom, plus knit nights, the MDK Lounge, and more. This is the knitting community we’ve dreamed about.
Our first year is off to a great start, and we hope you’ll join us.
So far, our Snippets Show guests have been Arne and Carlos, Franklin Habit, and Natalie Chanin—the video recordings of our chats are available to all MDK Society members, indefinitely!
Big news: Our special guest at the next Snippets Show on April 9 will be the delightful Jeanette Sloan. A contributor to MDK, Knitter and Knitting Magazine, and prolific designer. Check out the 170 designs in her Ravelry portfolio.
Please take a moment to sign up now.
Jane is Here
Who’s Jane? She’s our MDK-exclusive, DK-weight yarn.
One hundred percent British wool, made in Yorkshire.
To see Jane knitted up into 15 of the most beautiful patterns out there, take a leisurely stroll through our Jane lookbook. It’s the ultimate Pattern Scout!
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.
So much FOMO!
Wishing everyone a fantastic Nash Yarn Fest today.
The fest was so fun! J and I are peopled out, but our morning was wonderful! I just need to recharge my batteries for a couple of hours before diving back into the fun!