PRESIDENT: Shelby Adams

CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN: Larry Coveney

On a warm April day back in 1997, nearly 150 weavers and spinners from nine different guilds had gathered at Beardsley Park in Sun City West for a one-day fiber arts celebration. The celebration, complete with numerous demonstrations -- including discharge dyeing, bobbin lace, tapestry, double weave, etc. and a spin-in -- was held to coincide with the annual spring business meeting.

During the course of that meeting, a motion was passed to hold a workshop conference. The suggestion for the conference had come from two long-time members of the Federation – former president Cynthia Broughton of Telarana Weavers and Spinners Guild and soon-to-be-president Shelby Adams of Green Valley Guild.

Celebrating that our organization – Federation – was over twenty years old and emphasizing education, the name Fibers Through Time – In Pursuit of Excellence was adopted. A logo with fibers passing through an infinity symbol was adopted. How rewarding it was that three years later Shelby Adams should be the Federation President and Cynthia Broughton should manage the Workshops at this conference which they had requested.

For more details on this – and other conferences – click on HISTORY.