Thank you all again for your support and your comments. I will see how it will go on, maybe the interest is increasing again someday.
Of course people can't spend so much money for their hobbies any more because of the economy and their personal and financial situation but I think there is also something else.
I have tried to sell my work for many years but it is almost impossible. Crafts and fibre work like quilting are not considered as art like painting and sculpting and this fact keeps the prices very low. Quilts (especially traditional ones) haven't find their way into art galleries here in Germany. I am always shocked when I see crafters who sell their work for almost nothing! They can't even get the money for the material they needed.
Germany doesn't have a tradition in quiltmaking like US or other European countries like UK or the Netherlands. There are still so many people here who don't even know what a quilt is! We Germans are well known for high quality craftmanship - but I think we can't include quilting there...
Well, I think one important mission for us quilters here is to give more notice of our craft and to show it to the public as often as possible. And I also hope there will be more open-minded gallerists who give a chance to our textile art more often. In my opinion that would increase the prestige of quilting a lot.