The Fiber Arts Festival was born at Bonanzaville in 2008. The director wanted a special activity for a summer weekend, and Kim Baird and Virginia Dambach immediately started planning a festival to celebrate sewing, knitting, weaving, quilting, and everything else that can be done with fiber, yarn and fabric.
The Festival has always been about bringing together all kinds of fiber people from the region to celebrate our crafts, learn from each other, and enjoy the camaraderie of other fiber people that can be hard to find in our wide open region. Vendors have been an important part of the Festival since the beginning, especially as it was more difficult at that time to find local sources for some of the more specialized tools and materials for fiber arts.