Our world today is on the "fast track" - we have so much more going on in ours lives than they did back then. We are too much out and about whereas they were mostly at home and we were to hand quilt, etc. in their "spare" time off and on during the day and evening. We didn't have TV, the internet, cell phones, etc. Life was so much simpler then. We have lost so much, but gained as well. In order to accomplish the quilts we desire to make, we kinda need those tools today. As you know, there are many, many beautiful quilts out there much more sophisticated today. Life goes on and we simply adapt.