Is quilting in general a dying art?
09-24-2010, 07:44 AM
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A dying art ?? Don't think so !!
I've been quilting for 20+ years and I see more people quilting than ever before - the economy doesn't seem to be hurting the quilting business ! There are Quilt shows all over the USA and overseas, there are more quilt shops, websites, fabrics, books & patterns coming out all the time ...
The largest Quilt show in the US is held here in Houston each year. The International Quilt Festival is in its 35th Year here - it averages more than 50,000 people in just 4 days of show. It's the Mecca for Quilters ! If you've never been, you need to come !!
Quilting is a $3-4 BILLION dollar industry (annual) - definitely NOT a dying art or craft :)
I've been quilting for 20+ years and I see more people quilting than ever before - the economy doesn't seem to be hurting the quilting business ! There are Quilt shows all over the USA and overseas, there are more quilt shops, websites, fabrics, books & patterns coming out all the time ...
The largest Quilt show in the US is held here in Houston each year. The International Quilt Festival is in its 35th Year here - it averages more than 50,000 people in just 4 days of show. It's the Mecca for Quilters ! If you've never been, you need to come !!
Quilting is a $3-4 BILLION dollar industry (annual) - definitely NOT a dying art or craft :)
09-24-2010, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Mad Gertie
Hi Moonangel12,
Here in Britain it is a fast improving art, especially machine quilting ! The last 20 years or so it has really grown all over the country. I am a very late - commer to quilting, I started last year when I retired. I am completely hooked, it has taken my entire life over, I just love it ! I am still doing everything by hand, which I like . The only sad thing is that our avalability and choice of fabrics is nothing like as good as yours in the US.
Mad Gertie from Kent
Here in Britain it is a fast improving art, especially machine quilting ! The last 20 years or so it has really grown all over the country. I am a very late - commer to quilting, I started last year when I retired. I am completely hooked, it has taken my entire life over, I just love it ! I am still doing everything by hand, which I like . The only sad thing is that our avalability and choice of fabrics is nothing like as good as yours in the US.
Mad Gertie from Kent
09-24-2010, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Mad Gertie
Hi Moonangel12,
Here in Britain it is a fast improving art, especially machine quilting ! The last 20 years or so it has really grown all over the country. I am a very late - commer to quilting, I started last year when I retired. I am completely hooked, it has taken my entire life over, I just love it ! I am still doing everything by hand, which I like . The only sad thing is that our avalability and choice of fabrics is nothing like as good as yours in the US.
Mad Gertie from Kent
Here in Britain it is a fast improving art, especially machine quilting ! The last 20 years or so it has really grown all over the country. I am a very late - commer to quilting, I started last year when I retired. I am completely hooked, it has taken my entire life over, I just love it ! I am still doing everything by hand, which I like . The only sad thing is that our avalability and choice of fabrics is nothing like as good as yours in the US.
Mad Gertie from Kent
09-24-2010, 08:07 AM
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I don't think quilting will ever die. It touches our souls to make them, and/or receive them. But it is getting more expensive all the time. China makes the bulk of the fabric we use. (We lost quite a few containers of fabric to Katrina, when the containers were swept off the docks.) But it does takes my breath away to see the prices of fabrics in the quilt stores...$10, $12 a yard...and how many yards go into a quilt? Yikes! I'm making more scrap quilts, and really, I'm enjoying it more!
09-24-2010, 09:04 AM
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Lets compare it with embroidery, people will do it by machine, in the stores everything you buy is done my machine, but the people that spend time doing it by hand is a real artist because she can master to a fine tune the basics. If you have a passion for something , you try to master your art.
09-24-2010, 09:38 AM
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I think handquilting is almost a dying art...recently my 25 yr old great is showing interest and doing very well.. my daughter and gd have showed a little interest but my gs ha showed more tha them !!!!!
09-24-2010, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by fabric_fancy
Quilters Newsletter released a study a few months ago on the average quilter and if you take a look at the average age of 62 and the market share of 14% you'd have to say that its a dying art.
here's a link to the report
http://www.quilts.com/announcements/...0_OneSheet.pdf
here's a link to the report
http://www.quilts.com/announcements/...0_OneSheet.pdf
09-24-2010, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by sheila bee
I think handquilting is almost a dying art...recently my 25 yr old great is showing interest and doing very well.. my daughter and gd have showed a little interest but my gs ha showed more tha them !!!!!
09-24-2010, 01:16 PM
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The high school here in Maine require all students make pillow cases and a quilt.
I have done a quilt here and there for 44 years.
I don't know if it was more common or not but I do have quilts my great grand Mother made out of necessity. she and made soap and took in laundry.
Also looking at her quilts and knowing that my great Grandfather used to dissaper to Canada
I believe some of her quilts were done for the underground Rail Road.I think maybe my Great Grandfather may have aided in there transfer.
I have done a quilt here and there for 44 years.
I don't know if it was more common or not but I do have quilts my great grand Mother made out of necessity. she and made soap and took in laundry.
Also looking at her quilts and knowing that my great Grandfather used to dissaper to Canada
I believe some of her quilts were done for the underground Rail Road.I think maybe my Great Grandfather may have aided in there transfer.
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