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Charity Knitting – Jan 2026

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Our next Charity Knitting event will be hosted by the SoCK chapter!

Saturday, January 10th, 2026 from 1:30 – 5:00 pm
Windwood Presbyterian Church, 10555 Spring Cypress Rd, Houston, TX 77070

SOCK’s regular chapter meeting is the same day and location from 10am-noon, all are welcome to attend! There will be plenty of time after to go get lunch, then return for the charity event at 1:30.

If anything changes and it doesn’t make it into the newsletter, be sure to check our website and Facebook group for the most up-to-date info.


Linda Currie (KIK) & Nancy Smith (KNOW)
Charity Co-Chairs

Charity Knitting – Dec 2025

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Cozy Threads, Creative Hands, Community Heart

Hello KANG friends! As the weather cools down and our projects warm up, November has been a wonderful month of creativity and connection. Our knitters and crocheters have been busy stitching up everything from winter accessories to community charity contributions. Thank you to everyone who has shared time, talent, and yarn to keep our guild vibrant and meaningful.

We are continuing to receive donations and working to get them out to various charities.

Thank you for your continued efforts.

Linda Currie (KIK) & Nancy Smith (KNOW)
Charity Co-Chairs

Charity Knitting – Nov 2025

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As the seasons change, our hearts remain steady in service. Thanks to the generosity and skill of our members, our guild continues to wrap our community in warmth—one stitch at a time. Your contributions of time, yarn, and love are making a real difference!

Recent Charity Highlights:

Humble Head Start Hat Project
This fall, we delivered 58 hats to Humble Head Start students. The teachers and families expressed heartfelt gratitude many of the children wore their hats proudly the same day!

“Your generous offer has touched my heart and the hearts of our families. May you continue to be blessed and a blessing.” — Humble Head Start Manager

Texas Women’s hospital
Items were delivered to hospital with help of Julie (KNIT) & her daughter. Delivered were 16 hats and 3 wraps.  

LBJ hospital
Not mentioned in Sept news, but Julie (KNIT) dropped off 4 fidget sleeves for geriatric patients. 

Donation Follow up:

Maria (KIK) made final pickup load of yarn from Mr. Klein and delivered a nice, knitted hat and thank you plaque for his very generous donation.

October 25th ADDI & SENTRO knit off:

Hosted by KNOW at Spring Creek BBQ. Even with threat of rain & floods we still had a successful knit off. We were able to get 12 hats & 2 scarves created and ready for donation. Many other items were brought to meeting for donation also.

Ongoing Donations Received:

We continue to receive items for donations for various charities. We’ve received knitted knockers, blankets, hats, scarves, fidget sleeves, & soap sacks.

One of us was able to make a visit with every chapter this month. Enjoyed getting to meet every one of the chapters. We were able to pickup some donations and share charity yarn with your chapters as well.

Linda Currie (KIK) & Nancy Smith (KNOW)
Charity Co-Chairs

Charity Knitting – Oct 2025

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We’ve had a banner month of September with lots of charity donations, both incoming and outgoing!

Thank you to Maria Grisson who is making a couple of trips into Houston to pick up loads of yarn donated to the guild. A gentleman has donated it on behalf of his daughter, Lisa Blake Klein, who passed away earlier this year. So far Maria has filled a pickup truck and will be making one more trip. Thank you, Maria!  The yarn is going to be used for lots of chapter charity projects and to help students in the Kingwood area.

Nancy and Linda have met a couple times to exchange yarn and donated items to get them to the right destinations. We are making plans for future monthly activities.

In the month of September, our donation totals are: 

  • 25 Rectangles to Warm Up America, delivered to the Dallas WUA chapter at DFW Fiber Fest
  • 58 hats to Headstart
  • 18 blankets to the Linus Project 
  • 10 hats to Disabled Americans of Texas
  • 3 tubs of yarn to Creative Studio in Kingwood
  • 1 bag of yarn to Kingwood Park HS for their crochet club and special ed students

On Oct 16th, Linda plans to bring a stash of charity yarn to the KIND chapter meeting.  She will also pick up any items ready to be donated. After this, we believe this will mean that we have made rounds to each chapter.  We plan to continue to visit all of the chapters every few months.

Next Charity Event: Tentatively, we will have an ADDI machine knit off on October 25th. Come help us crank and put items together. We’ll bring several machines. If you have one, bring it too.  Date and place still being determined.

Other Charity Events: Please consider planning a charity event in your part of town! It would be great if each chapter hosted an event this year, as we did last year. Email Charity with your ideas and we’ll help.

For future donations: If you are making something for a specific charity/group, please pin a note to the item to let us know. This will be a great help in making sure we get them to the correct place! If you don’t have a preference, that’s ok.

Thanks so much for your efforts in charity knitting!

Linda Currie (KIK) & Nancy Smith (KNOW)
Charity Co-Chairs

Charity Knitting – Sep 2025

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Hey Fiber Arts fans,

Nancy & I are eager to assist the GUILD in providing donations to the various charities.

For the month of August, we had a couple of donations:

  • The first one was a trunk of yarn and needles donated to Pearland Highschool’s fiber art’s program.
  • Our second donation included 2 blankets donated to the Linus project.  

Both donations were dropped off by Julie and we really appreciate her assistance in moving forward with these items.

Nancy & I are still learning the ropes and hope to get more items donated soon. Currently in our donation stash, we have items ready to donate to Eastern Star, Knitted Knockers, Warm Up America, and Head Start. Some of the donated items will be used as yarn bomb items for the quilt show.

Next month we plan to report more donated items were dropped off at their donation sites.  Nancy & I are collaborating on the plans for the next quarter and will update you on the next newsletter. Colder weather is coming soon, we hope!  So, start knitting up those items so we can be delivering them during the winter months.


Linda Currie (and Nancy Smith)
Charity Co-Chairs
knitatnightguildCharity@gmail.com

Charity Knitting – Jul 2025

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The KNIT chapter used some of their chapter funds and invited all guild members to their June meeting to make blankets for the Linus Project! They used fleece and added crochet borders for single-layer blankets, and made some double-thick blankets with tied edges.

We received two large donations of yarn:

  1. One is (mostly) Paintbox chunky, DK and cotton aran;
  2. the other is all Berroco Comfort!

All are mostly full skeins and in many colors; please contact your Charity chairs if you would like to pick some up for a charity project!

Charity Knitting – Jun 2025

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The Women’s Hospital of Texas received eight hats and one shawl.
The Landing received 21 knitted pouches and ten sewn bags via the KNOW charity event and other contributors.  
These organizations are VERY grateful.  

We received two large donations of yarn:

  • one is (mostly) Paintbox chunky, DK and cotton aran;
  • the other is all Berroco Comfort!

All are mostly full skeins and in many colors; please contact your Charity chairs if you would like to pick some up for a charity project!

Charity Knitting – May 2025

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Our group has been asked to help GSK’s Oncology team, which develops medicines for the nation’s cancer patients, in a unique give back to the community. The team will create knitted items for patients that will be distributed nationally by nonprofit Knots of Love. This will take place during a team event on May 12th in The Woodlands, TX. 

They’re looking for 20-25 enthusiastic and experienced knitters to provide support during the event. You will assist participants in using Addi circular knitting machines to create unique items for cancer patients.

Your role will be to guide and assist table teams of 5 people to cast on their yarn, change colors and finish their item. If you’re experienced with circular knitting machines, that’s a bonus.

Preliminary Agenda:

2:00 PM Arrival at The Woodlands Resort Hilton; Introduction and Set-up 

5:00 PM Giveback Round One

5:45 PM Giveback Round Two

6:45 PM Pack-up

7:15 PM Dinner

As a thank you for your time and expertise, you will receive $200 and dinner with the knitters. We’ll also be distributing some of the Addi machines to those helping us who want to continue to create hats for Knots for Love.

Available, experienced and interested? Please send an email to Kristine Jones at kjones@cubistmediagroup.com by Tuesday, May 6. We’re excited to work together and make this a memorable event for a great cause!

Charity Knitting – Apr 2025

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In March, we delivered handknits to:

Texas Women’s Hospital:

  • 5 wraps 
  • 1 knitted knocker
  • 10 hats

LBJ geriatric unit:

  • 3 fidget sleeves

The Linus Project:

  • 1 blanket

Our next charity event is Saturday, April 12 from 11-3 at Spring Creek Barbeque, 21000 Katy Fwy, Katy. This event is hosted by KNOW!

A guest speaker from The Landing will talk about their clients’ needs that crafters can support such as soap sacks or pouches. 

We recommend the Anything Knit Pouch pattern by Mama in a Stitch, which is made with super bulky yarn on size US 13 needles.

Yarn, thread and buttons will be provided April 12.

Charity Knitting – Feb 2025

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KIK will be hosting the first charity knit along of 2025 on Saturday, February 8, 12:30 – 4 pm at Kingwood Country Club, 1700 Lake Kingwood Trail, Kingwood, TX 77339.

Gloria Trowbridge of Texas Women’s Hospital will join via zoom at 1:00 to talk about patient needs and KANG’s assistance. There will be LOTS of soft and pretty yarn on hand. Bring circulars for working with DK and worsted weight yarn. 

KNIT will also be talking about charity needs and creating chemo hats on February 11. Charity will bring lots of soft yarn and members should bring circulars to work with DK and worsted weight yarn.  

Star of Hope received 1 sweater, 7 warm hats and 2 cowls a couple days before the snowstorm on January 20.  

Texas Women’s Hospital received 8 new hats this month.