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Shop / Field Guides

MDK Field Guide No. 2: Fair Isle

By Kay Gardiner, Ann Shayne

We are unabashedly pro-colorwork. This Field Guide sets you up for success with four projects that allow brilliant color play and a bit of skill sharpening along the way.

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Choose an option: (handy) digital download or (adorable) (collectible) paperback print edition. The print edition includes a free digital download at Ravelry—your unique download code is on the inside back cover. In addition, we’ll download a digital edition to your MDK account as well. 
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Specs & Details

Craft
Knitting
Skill Level
Easy
Intermediate

MDK Field Guide No. 2 is all about easy entry into the world of colorwork, with four projects that come together fast.

In putting together a new Field Guide, the hard part isn’t coming up with ideas. The challenge is to pare down the list. When we began thinking about Field Guide No. 2: Fair Isle, there was no end of possibility. Stranded colorwork is a vast, colorful sea of beautiful things to make. Overwhelming when you first dive in.

Our aim is to provide a mix of patterns that make it possible to play with stranded colorwork at whatever level you’d like to try.

Easy. Easier. Easiest.

Working with our Creative Director Melanie Falick gave us the chance to create some pretty stunning Pinterest idea boards. What surprised us was the way that certain motifs and colorways and shapes kept catching our eye.

A colorful yoke.

A modern Fair Isle pattern.

Socks with something happening.

Through great good luck, we were able to work with three designers whose designs we have admired for years. They took our ideas and surpassed everything we had hoped for.

Véronik Avery.

Ann Budd.

Michèle Rose Orne.

The three patterns in Field Guide No. 2 are as elegant in construction as any we have offered, thanks to the talent of these designers. These are juicy, delicious, addicting patterns.

Véronik Avery’s Hadley Pullover is the perfect mix of fit and ease. Michèle Rose Orne’s Asterisk Hat and Dot Cowl allow you to play with color and pattern as you like, to cheerful effect. And Ann Budd’s Après-Anything Socks, worked in worsted yarn, can be made so fast that they’re a candidate for Kwik ’n’ EZ Handknit Gift of the Year.

And Sara Remington’s photographs remind us that knitting is a beautiful thing.

Let the Colorwork begin!
Winterburn Aran
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Inspiration
7 Reasons Ann Budd’s Socks Should Be Your Next Project
7
Let the Colorwork Begin! The New Field Guide & Yarns Are Here
20
First Look! Field Guide No. 2: Fair Isle
12
Ann Budd Explains It All for Us
7
A Visit With Véronik Avery
36
Projects
Bang Out a Hadley: Procrastinate Now!
10
Projects
Bang Out a Hadley: A Celebration
2
Inspiration
Designer’s Notes: Hadley
18
Projects
Casting on Asterisk
Julie Asselin Douillet
Mohonk
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