First Person
A Big Welcome to the Designer of Field Guide No. 9!
This is a day we have anticipated for months.
The moment when we can share the news.
The hour when it’s OK to say it out loud.
We’re saying it!
Norah Gaughan is the designer for MDK Field Guide No. 9.
NORAH!
NORAH!
NORAH!
Her Serene Highness.
La Norah.
You look up knitting designer in the dictionary, and there’s a picture of Norah Gaughan.
OK, here’s another picture of Norah.
Gaughan rhymes with fawn, and that’s pretty much what we’re going to do as we celebrate this new Field Guide.
She has worn many hats in her starry career in knitting.
As a designer, she has created around 1,000 designs, a stunning body of work.
She served as creative director at Berocco Yarns.
She has taught thousands of students.
She is the author of the classic book Knitting Nature and more recently Norah Gaughan’s Knitted Cable Sourcebook. (Here’s Franklin Habit’s review of that masterwork.)
Her brand-new collection, Interchangeable, launches on the same day as Field Guide No. 9. We are thrilled that these two collections complement each other so perfectly. Watch here for information about ordering Interchangeable.
Field Guide No. 9 launches a week from tomorrow, on Thursday, November 15. We have tremendous plans for fun with this very special Field Guide.
If you are just now hearing the words Norah Gaughan for the first time, you have an excellent adventure ahead of you.
If you’re already a Norah Gaughan fan, you’re really going to love what’s coming next week.
Excuse the muffled fangirl screaming – this just made my day!
Wow! can’t wait for this one in my mailbox!
This is exciting
Wonderful news! I am a longtime fan of her work and am currently knitting (and loving) her AMAZING Geiger Cardigan!
Oh my gosh, Geiger! Nobody does a big one-patch cable like that. (I can’t think what else to call it. It’s like one big cable that doesn’t repeat.)
I’m just putting the finishing touches to my Geiger. I’m thrilled to be keeping company with Wendy! Even just the seams on Geiger are a revelation – it’s full of little details like that.
Wahoo! Can’t wait to see what Norah has cooked up for us MDK-ers!
One of the cleverest designers out there. I’m a huge fan, and am chagrined that I’ve been pronouncing her name incorrectly all this time!
❤️❤️❤️
Wow! Her designs are truly amazing. I can’t wait!
Sigh……………….Norah!!!
Eeeeeee!!!! I can’t wait!!!
Looking forward to seeing both books. Norah is in a greatness category of her own.
CANNOT WAIT! I’ve already asked my LYS to reserve a Field Guide for me.
I love the title…and totally appropriate!
Thrilled to read the news – Norah is major!!!!!!!!!
Can’t wait woo hoo. Huge fan here!!
I’m plotzing.
Me too! I expect I’ll be verklempt.
I can’t wait!!!
Gasping out loud here! This is THRILLING news!
Will it be clever Norah or whimsical Norah? hmm….
I guessed who it was from the tease in your email…could it be…Yes!
Very exciting!
Can’t wait!
No hyperbole when it comes to Norah. I too am a fan, excited to see what she’s got for us!
So excited!
Ecstatic about this. I just finished and wore my Geiger to Rhinebeck. This design is over-the-top amazing and my favorite knitting experience to date. Can’t wait to see the Field Guide! Thanks for bringing us more of Norah!
Wait!!! WHAT!?!?! Yeah! Nora! Cannot wait to see what she’s created this time! Christmas is coming early, lafies!
Mind. Blown. I cannot wait!!!!
I am a HUGE Norah fan, I have several of her fascinating and amazing designs. I can’t wait to see what she’s come up with for Field Guide No. 9.
You guys go from success to success.
Can we preorder Field Guide #9?
This morning I booked off the back of Norah’s cardigan, Geiger. What fun it’s been. With two sleeves already done, I get to stay one of the fronts now!
I’ve made several other items of Noraj’s design and own Knitting Nature. Now i can lon forward to FG#9!
Can’t wait, such a fan of Norah’s work!
Soooo-weeeet!!!! Can’t wait!!!
Way back when I bought knitting magazines and to declutter I tore out the patterns I thought I would want to knit some day fast forward…okay only to the early 2000’s and I was looking at patterns and bought a book or two of Norah G’s and then looked at the clipped patterns and darn I was a fan girl before I even knew I was. She is so clever with her patterns. So count me in!
Love Norah!
Oh, I absolutely love her!! ❤️
yay!
Heard about this at my knitting group today and caught my breath. O.M.G. I’m so excited!
Fangirl… so excited!!!
Woo-hoo!!
i hope you have a large first printing. it’s going to go fast!
SQUEEEEEE!!!
Nora is my absolute favorite. I know anything that she designs is wonderful! And, she is wonderful. When she was at Berroco I was lucky enough to win a drawing from them and she was the one who called me. I’m not usually a groupie but I was willing to make an exception in her case. I even blurted out this made my knee surgery from the day before feel much better and she chatted about that and wished me well. I can hardly wait for next week!
Hi MDK- I’d like to know if you are planning on making blankets (or a blanket) for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, like you did for Tia Coleman and a few others. I think they could use a little extra warmth this winter; that someone cares about them. I know it’s the time of year when knitters are thinking of holiday gifts, but I know that in New York (where I live) there’s been an increase in anti-semitism. This is unacceptable. Though one blanket might not be much, I have a feeling it would be greatly appreciated. Please give it some thought.
Btw, your articles on Tia’s blanket brought tears to my eyes, the finished product was so beautiful!
Dear Helen,
Thank you so much for writing. There is a group just forming right now to make a blanket or more than one, over in the MDK Lounge. Please feel free to join in–I know they’d love to have you.
https://forums.masondixonknitting.com/t/team-blanket-no-6-for-pittsburgh/2341
It is a dark time right now, and we need all the light we can find.
Norah is an amazing designer
Look forward to it!
You should sell the set together. Would make a great Christmas gift. Just saying.