Once would have answer yes, but think there has been a "rebirth" of interest and growing participants! My DH thinks I'm a dinosaur bc I am the only person he knows that sews/quilts. I work PT in a quilt shop, and he has come in on occasion and had lunch with me, always comments on how busy the store is and what a wide variety of age groups that come through! I think "project runway" has done a great service to regrow some interest in sewing and design. Quilting I believe has had a slow steady growth over the last 20-25 yr. I think that like many things there have been many things to change and adapt to make it easier, more affordable, and I believe the adaptive process has kept it alive. People willing to share it, have kept the momentum going.