I think it's the government in cohoots with the fabric companies, they are spraying some sort of bio-chemical on the cottons that makes us want to buy material and sew and sew and sew. See quilters are generally the shakers and movers of the country and if you keep them busy they won't see how the nation is actually being run. Show us a quilt pattern and we are out of sight and out of mind in our sewing rooms. That's my conspiracy theory on it. I don't even watch news much anymore because my fabrics keeps me calm.