This year’s charity item drive is for Jonathan’s Place - a children’s shelter in Dallas. We will be collecting handmade hats, scarfs, and blankets for them. They serve children age newborn - 17. Start stitching! About Jonathan’s Place: For 15 years, Jonathan’s Place has been taking care of the Dallas area’s youngest victims of abuse. Jonathan’s Place provides this care through two programs – a “home-style” emergency shelter for abused, abandoned and neglected children and a Foster & Adoptive Family Program. The emergency shelter provides specialized services and 24-hour residential care and is the only emergency shelter in Dallas County that provides residential services for children in crisis under the age of 10. In the Foster & Adoptive Family Program, Jonathan’s Place recruits potential foster and adoptive families, conducts a comprehensive training program and verifies the families as either foster, foster-to-adopt or adoptive families. At this point, Jonathan’s Place places children from Child Protective Services into the care of these families. Jonathan’s Place is the only organization in Dallas County and one of only a few organizations in the State of Texas that provides a continuum of care from crisis placement in an emergency shelter to placement with a foster family to, ultimately, adoption.

We’d like to say thank you to everybody who came to Fiber Fest this weekend! The vendors, the teachers, the students, and the browsers. We had a great time and it looked like everybody else did too!

Thank you also to everyone who donated a chemo cap - we collected 116 of them!

Finally - thank you for the candid feedback we received on the student forms. While everybody had very nice and even glowing things to say, we know we’re not perfect and can improve. We hear you - and we’ll work on those issues for next year.

I’ll post more photos tomorrow - I’m off to relax more this evening.