You’ve Got Snippets: November 16, 2024

Dear Knitter,

Happy Saturday!

Whether you’ve just learned to knit, or you’ve been at it for decades, it’s amazing how much joy knitting delivers. Our next big joymaker is coming up soon:

On December 13, just in time for the holidays, join our virtual workshop with Anna Hrachovec, the legendary creator of Mochimochi Land’s darling creatures. We’ll be making tiny cats, together. An adorable kit comes with this experience. We can’t wait, and we hope you’ll join us.

Holiday Fun

Have you seen our annual pride and joy, the MDK Holiday Shop 2024? It’s an extraordinary collection of bundles, workshops, crafts, and gifts, all for you and for the delight of your loved ones. Dive into the Lookbook, or flip through it with Ann and Kay here.

The Knitting Group You’ve Been Looking For

It’s been a huge uplift for us to see signups rolling in for our new membership, the MDK Society. Thank you, newly minted MDK Society charter members!

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! Programming will begin in earnest in January.

Meanwhile…

We had a big time on MDK this week.

For all your blanket fort needs, Clara Parkes recommends (surprise!) wool.

Paul Haesemeyer and the puppets of Prague.

Norah Gaughan taught Ann a magical origami collar trick.

Kay set a course for adventure, and discovered a whole new kind of knitting bliss.

In this month’s helping of strength for the journey, Max Daniels considers affirmations—versus what’s actually affirming.

A deeply meditative series about working with our hands, to watch while working with our hands.

Your Support Is Everything—Thank You!

At MDK, engaging, entertaining, and lifting up knitters 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!

One Spot Left

We’re down to the last spot in Patti Odinak’s Nash Yarn Fest Getaway next March, so if you’ve been dreaming about it, make haste. Patti knows how to keep an adventurous group of knitters happy and well cared for. Read all about it and sign up here.

Want to start the NYF celebration early? We’ve got your swag covered:

MDK Holiday Shop

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.