Welcome Friends! We’re excited to invite you to take part in the 2025 Knit for the Girls (KFTG) fundraiser, happening October 23–31, 2025, now in its 5th year! 🎉
Thanks to your generosity, we’ve raised over $212,000 CAD ($155,000 USD) over the last four years of fundraising for breast cancer research—half supporting groundbreaking efforts in the US and Canada and the other half funding life-saving research in Australia.
Breast cancer has touched nearly all of us—whether personally or through someone we love. Through this fundraiser, our fiber arts community can come together to support research that saves lives.
This Year’s Event
Join us, Thread and Maple, Tracie & Jodi of the Grocery Girls and Karina Moore of Louie & Lola Yarns to once again raise funds for life-saving breast cancer research
From October 23-31st, everyone who makes a donation of $5 or more to our Breast Cancer Canada Fundraiser will be entered into daily and grand prize raffle draws to win one of dozens of fiber-tastic prizes - made possible with donations from dozens of generous sponsors in our community! This year, we have a whopping 83 sponsors - listed below - so our prize pool is positively overflowing with incredible goodies!
Here's what we've got going on:
✨ Fiber-tastic raffle prizes for donors to the North American & Australian fundraisers awarded daily from October 23rd to 30th.
✨ Over a dozen grand prizes drawing from list of all donors October 31st, featuring luxurious accessories, patterns and yarn bundles of North America's Finest Indie Dyers
✨ A new limited edition 2025 'Knit for the Girls' bundle, available for purchase at 12noon EDT Thursday, 30th October here in our shop, with $25USD/$30CAD from the sale of each bundle donated to Breast Cancer Canada. The bundles will also available for purchase in the Louie & Lola Yarns and Grocery Girls online stores.
Raffle Prize Winners
| Prize Day | Thread & Maple Winner #1 | Thread & Maple Winner #2 | Grocery Girls Winner #1 | Grocery Girls Winner #2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Evelyne Borkowski-Parent | Chelsea Sheehan | Lisa Reynolds | Jocelyne Blais |
| Day 2 | Brittney Pelletier | Cara Trotter | Dominik Viel-LeBlanc | Tracy Kuzniak |
| Day 3 | Debrah Nyquist | Karin Jackson | Ellen Lovell | Andrea Morrow |
| Day 4 | Candace Brodie | Jennifer Berry | Karen Ganderton | Mamie Armaly |
| Day 5 | Nicole McConnell | Carla Sturman | Lucy Ann Stoop | Sherry Ylioja |
| Day 6 | Sara Weiss | Patricia Fedler | Jody Ford |
Robin Comingore |
| Day 7 | Holly Matheson | Darby Bates | Susie Van Acker | Vila Menezes |
Grand Prize Winners
✨Mary B
✨Diane Mazurkewich
✨Petra VanderMeulen
✨Joanna Oksanen
✨Deborah Buttke
✨Wendy Cooke
✨Star Athena
✨Chantelle Lajoie
✨Victoria Dillman
✨Melody Neal
✨Kathryn Turp
✨Elaine Hollander
✨Anne Priestman
Donate for a Chance to Win
From October 24–31, everyone who makes a donation of $5 or more to one of our Knit for the Girls fundraisers will be entered into our raffle draws.
Thanks to more than 50 generous sponsors from across the fiber arts community, this year’s prize pool is overflowing with incredible yarn, patterns, accessories, and handmade goodies!
✨ Daily raffle prizes will be drawn October 24–30.
✨ More than a dozen grand prizes will be drawn from our list of donors on October 31.
Scroll down to meet this year’s sponsors and see what’s up for grabs!
Limited Edition
Knit for the Girls Bundle 2026
This year's limited-edition Knit for the Girls bundle features a your choice of Espresso or Pink limited edition leather sling bag design with a custom-woven jacquard strap, a gorgeous skein of L&L hand-dyed yarn and a brand-new sock pattern by Tracie Millar created especially for the fundraiser. $35CAD/$30USD will be donated from each bundle sale to the fundraiser. You can find bundles and coordinating accessories here in our shop as well as here at GroceryGirlsKnit.com.
New for 2026: The Knit for the Girls Exclusive Collection
Four Designers. Four Dyers. One Cause.
For our 6th annual fundraiser, we asked four of our favorite designers to team up with four incredible indie dyers and create something you won’t find anywhere else: original accessory patterns paired with limited-edition, pink-inspired colorways, made exclusively for this year’s collection.
Featuring collaborations from:
Andrea Mowry + Farmer’s Daughter Fibers
Teti Lutsak + Life in the Long Grass
Melanie Berg + Miss Babs
Tin Can Knits + Tanis Fiber Arts
The full Knit for the Girls 2026 Exclusive Collection launches on October 1, with 20% of pattern and yarn sales throughout October donated to the North American Knit for the Girls fundraiser.
Our Australian friends have something special planned for 2026, too!
The Knit for the Girls 2026 ‘Down Under’ Pattern Collection brings together Australian knit and crochet designers and indie dyers for six brand-new accessory patterns paired with exclusive pink-inspired colorways.
The collection launches October 1, with 20% of pattern and yarn sales throughout October donated to the Australian Knit for the Girls fundraiser, supporting the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Knitty Kitty x Knit for the Girls
Handmade with a Story, for a Cause
We’re so happy to team up with Nadine & Anna of KnittyKitty for a special Knit for the Girls collaboration. They create beautiful accessories from recycled leather, giving new life to materials from old clothing and other leather pieces.
100% of the profits from the Aliette and Patricia Dumplings and Taylor Tape Measures will be donated to Breast Cancer Canada.
Knit & Zoom for the Girls
We hope you can join us for a virtual KFTG party on October 24 at 9 pm EDT / 7 pm MDT / 6 pm PDT, or October 25 at 12 pm AEDT!
Come knit (or crochet) with us, drink pink, wear pink, and spend some time together for KFTG 💗
Meet Our Wonderful Sponsors
Why We Do It
Breast cancer has touched so many people in our community — personally, through family, or through someone we love.
That’s why we come together each year for Knit for the Girls: to raise funds for research that can improve outcomes and bring us closer to a future where fewer lives are lost to breast cancer.
In 2026, our community is supporting Breast Cancer Canada, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in the United States, and the National Breast Cancer Foundation Australia.
Whether you donate, purchase from one of our special collections, join us for Knit & Zoom, support one of our generous sponsors, or simply help spread the word, thank you for being part of it.
Five years in, this community has already accomplished something pretty incredible.
Let’s see what we can do together in year six. 💗
Our Incredible Prizes
DONATE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN
Donate at least $5 to our fundraiser this October to enter the daily raffles. Take a look at this year's incredible prize pool below.
Day 1
Drawn Oct 25th from all donations made up to Oct 24th
Thread & Maple Winners:
- Linda Archibald
- Alicia Hargreaves
- Marie-Josée Côté
Grocery Girls Winners:
- Jennifer Ramirez
- Sherri Garrett
- Carroll Calder
Day 2
Drawn Oct 26th from all donations made Oct 25th
Thread & Maple Winners:
- Alison Hoagland
- Janet Hale-Sanders
- Leslie Wudarck
Grocery Girls Winners:
- Melissa Proudlove
- Katie Marshall
- Gina Most
Day 3
Drawn Oct 27th from all donations made Oct 26th
Thread & Maple Winners:
- Glenna Matijasevich
- Jackie Hartwell
- Karen Ganderton
Grocery Girls Winners:
- Mary Phan
- Mary Yazvec
- Pat Chornoluk Sywenky
Day 4
Drawn Oct 28th from all donations made Oct 27th
Thread & Maple Winners:
- Brittany Demeule
- Elizabeth F.
- Jennifer Stevenson
Grocery Girls Winners:
- Linda Gradnitzer
- Michelle Walters
- Shirley Sharp
Day 5
Drawn Oct 29th from all donations made Oct 28th
Thread & Maple Winners:
- Bonnie Morrisey
- F Marshall
- Ingrid Magill
Grocery Girls Winners:
- Laura Pengra
- Renee Brockett
- Stephanie Gordon
Day 6
Drawing Oct 30th from all donations made Oct 29th
Day 7
Drawing Oct 31st from all donations made Oct 30th
Grand Prizes
Drawing Oct 31st at 12pm EDT from all donations made to date