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October 2025 Programs

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KIK – Pumpkins!!
KIND – TBD
KNIT – Counting Chains (tool)
KNOW – Sit ‘n Knit
SoCK – Big Beautiful Basket (crochet)

For more information regarding the latest chapter programs, please visit our CALENDAR page! Here you will find exact dates for upcoming guild chapter meetings, including full program descriptions for each meeting.

On the Calendar page you will also find various guild-wide events (charity knit-ins, affiliate sales and the like) and up-coming events in the yarn community / Houston area (FiberFests, conventions, etc.).

Please visit the KANG Chapters page to find your nearest chapter.

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

From Our President – October 2025

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Yesterday four KANG members (Anne Temple and Joyce Marston from KIK, Daniela Zapico from KNOW, and me from KIND) spent a couple hours at one of the Michaels Craft stores. We talked to customers about the Guild, handed out KANG business cards, displayed some of our finished projects, and spent a lot of time just knitting. Michaels recently bought out Joann’s stock and was trying to promote their craft merchandise. In appreciation for our being there, they gave the Guild a $100 gift card!  

On my needles: This month it’s been “on my hook” as I’m crocheting a baby blanket for one of our nephews and his wife. All my knitting projects have been on hold until I get that done.

Kate Wilson
KANG President
knitatnightguild@gmail.com

September 2025 Programs

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KIK – Cast-on, Bind-off (pt. 1)
KIND – Stacked Increases & Decreases
KNIT – Mosaic Knitting
KNOW – Sit ‘n Knit
SoCK – Mosaic Crocheting

For more information regarding the latest chapter programs, please visit our CALENDAR page! Here you will find exact dates for upcoming guild chapter meetings, including full program descriptions for each meeting.

On the Calendar page you will also find various guild-wide events (charity knit-ins, affiliate sales and the like) and up-coming events in the yarn community / Houston area (FiberFests, conventions, etc.).

Please visit the KANG Chapters page to find your nearest chapter.

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

From Our President – September 2025

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Here we are into hurricane season and so far, everything looks peaceful. Keep all your fingers and toes crossed that it stays that way. I’ll be leaving for Wisconsin in a couple weeks for my 60th class reunion. The weather there at this time of year is usually beautiful although it’s a little early for the leaves to be turning.

If you haven’t heard already, Merribee Needlearts is closing on September 13. From now until then, they have a 40-70% discount on all their yarns.

The Houston Quilt Festival is coming up October 9-12. We have a lot of members who have volunteered to work at the yarn winding booth in return for free admission to the festival. If you missed signing up this year, keep it in mind for next year!

The KIND chapter is changing their meeting location from Bayland Community Center to the Fonteno Senior Center at 6600 Bissonnet. It’s only about two blocks from the old location.

I have a couple tops on the needles, both of which I’ve made before. And I’ve added a chicklet to my growing collection of emotional support chickens. 

Kate Wilson
KANG President
knitatnightguild@gmail.com

August 2025 Programs

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KIK – TBD
KIND – Linus Project: Stitching Blocks (cont.)
KNIT – Planning for the Year
KNOW – Planning for the Year
SoCK – Double Knitting

For more information regarding the latest chapter programs, please visit our CALENDAR page! Here you will find exact dates for upcoming guild chapter meetings, including full program descriptions for each meeting.

On the Calendar page you will also find various guild-wide events (charity knit-ins, affiliate sales and the like) and up-coming events in the yarn community / Houston area (FiberFests, conventions, etc.).

Please visit the KANG Chapters page to find your nearest chapter.

From Our President – August 2025

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We are ready to turn over management of the Guild to a new set of officers at the handover meeting on August 2. Thanks to all of you who volunteered to be officers for the coming year as well as those of you who were officers this past year. The Guild would not exist without you! Check the column to the right for a list of all new officers.

I’ve been busy knitting this month. I finished another Emotional Support Chicken (Henrietta) to keep my first one company; a Marisol top which I love – it fits perfectly; and mattress stitching together blanket squares for the KIND chapter. The blankets will go to Project Linus.

Our next board meeting will be August 19. All the board meetings are held on Zoom and any members are welcome to attend – contact Lauren at kangwebmaster@gmail.com for a link to the Zoom call if you are interested.

Kate Wilson
KANG President
knitatnightguild@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!

From Our President – July 2025

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We have new officers! With a unanimous vote from the chapters, the following people will take over as new officers on August 1:

KANG Secretary – Jayne Jones (SoCK)

KANG Treasurer – Deanne Nirider (SoCK)

Charity Chairpersons – Linda Currie (KIK) and Nancy Smith (KNOW)

Workshop Chairpersons – Nancy Polychronopoulis (KNOW) and Ann Cole (KNOW)

Thanks to all of them for volunteering!

Kate Wilson
KANG President
knitatnightguild@gmail.com