Kingfield Neighborhood Association

The Great Winter Warm-Up: 110 Comforters in 2 Days

Friday Jan. 17 and Saturday, Jan. 18, 10 am to 3 pm both days.
Help us make 110 comforters in two days for families at the US-Mexican border and Middle Eastern refugees. Judson Church and the Mennonite Central Committee will provide the batting materials, along with coffee, tea and hot water. Whether you are a knotter, sewer, stuffer or learner, experts will be on hand to help. If you are a sewer, bring your machine and some fabric, whole pieces or pieces that can be sewn together. Knotters bring scissors. A sack lunch and perhaps a shareable sweet is a good idea. Meet your neighbors and help keep some families warm. See mcc.org for tips on making comforters.
For more info or to RSVP contact Marlys Weins or Polly Schrom at

Kingfield Boomerang Bags

In January the group will resume meeting monthly each 3rd Tuesday, gathering from 6–9 PM, but we will move to the new Kingfield-Lyndale community space at 3537 Nicollet Ave South. The format is causal, so drop in for as much time as you have free. Bring your own machine if you are a sewer, or just show up and help iron, cut, and pin. All levels of participation are welcomed, and we look forward to connecting with each other and sharing conversations about how we can all leave a lighter footprint our earth. Stay in touch with the group via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/507876746461602/.

We will be busy sewing reusable shopping bags in the coming months for anyone that needs one, and are happy to support neighbors who need a bag to avoid charges and comply with the new Bring Your Own Bag Ordinance which goes into place on January 1st. This important change in Minneapolis is one small step toward reducing unnecessary plastic consumption in our city. Kingfield Boomerang Bags is excited to keep sewing bags, and also to begin providing education on this ordinance, so that people are prepared for the 5-cent change.

Do you need a reusable shopping bag? Come to an event and we will help you make one!

Paint-a-Bowl at the Y for Kingfield’s Empty Bowls!

Drop by the Blaisdell Y to paint a bowl for Kingfield Empty Bowls! Fuller Park artists have pre-thrown 100 bowls for the community to come decorate and be given away at our February community dinner which will be held on February 6th.

Stop in and join the fun!

Open House for 210 W 46th St

In August 2017, the City of Lakes Community Land Trust (CLCLT) acquired 210 West 46th Street. The foreclosed property had been vacant for several months; however, the CLCLT saw the opportunity to create, in partnership with Kingfield Neighborhood Association, a long-term affordable home in the southwest area of Minneapolis, which is increasingly difficult to achieve. Through the CLCLT, the home will be sold to an owner-occupant earning 80% or less of Area Median Income and will remain affordable long-term through the community land trust resale process.

Please join us at the open house on Thursday, January 23 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. More information on sale of the property will be forthcoming.

Whittier/Lyndale Bikeway project on the Agenda for the KFNA Board Meeting

City staff will be presenting and receiving comments on the Whittier/Lyndale Bikeway project, which in 2021 will improve existing bikeways on 1st Avenue South and/or Blaisdell Avenue between Grant Street and 40th Street. Enhancements could include curb protected bikeways, two-way bikeways, and/or intersection improvements. If you are not able to attend the presentation, you may submit comments on the project via the City’s online survey.