Originally Posted by Honey
I, too, think it is a time thing more than anything else. I would love to organize a quilting bee. It really shouldn't be that hard to do as most of us belong to quilt groups and guilds.
Me too, when I lived in Virginia in the 80s we had them all the time. What fun. Sometimes we all helped piece a quilt to have a chance to win. Then when it came time to quilt for every hour you quilted you got your name in a pot. At the end we would draw and whoever won got the quilt. We also did a lot of friendship quits, together. We are sure missing out these days.
It reminds me how no one talks in person or on the phone anymore because of email, texting and all the social sites.
A few of us got together a few months back and tied a couple of antique quilts, that could not be hand quilted for several reasons, but didn't want to ruin the integrity so tied them so they were still at least hand done. But we had a blast just being together, laughing and laughing.
I am always disappointed at the shows, so few are hand quilted.I also do believe it is a dying craft as well as hand applique. Which really concerns me as a hand quilter.
I am not against machine quilting and see times when I might use it, but for me that is not often. But I do know someday I may not be able to hand quilt anymore. And may have to go to machine quilting.