How did Fiberart For A Cause (FFAC) start?
My sister, Nancy Spiegel Rosman, is chair of the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life in her town, Forest Lake MN. What is the ACS Relay For Life? Our Dad is a colon cancer survivor. All donations through Fiberart For A Cause are credited to the Forest Lake Relay For Life, but go directly to the American Cancer Society. I was a minimally participating team member until April 2005 when I decided to try to increase my donation to the ACS by offering a few fiberart postcards online in exchange for donations. My hope was to have three of seven postcards acquired by patrons and raise $90. Eventually I was making fiberart postcards full time to sell online for FFAC. Karen Stiehl Osborn asked if she could help me keep up with demand by making and donating some postcards in memory of her Dad. Artists and patrons worldwide, including many members of the online group, Quiltart, soon adopted the FFAC cause as their own. Fiberart postcards were donated and purchased at an amazing rate with ove
