I attended the Mid-Atlantic quilt festival in February and noticed there were far fewer quilts than the last time I was there. The last time the quilts seemed to never end! Quilts were squeezed into every spare inch and it took hours to view them all. I came home with 300+ photos, and even then I only took photos of quilts I liked.
This year, part of the convention hall was simply empty. Huge empty spaces. After I walked through the wallhanging entries I said, 'where are the rest of them?" It was still a very good quilt show, but I was a little disappointed in the number of quilts. Especially after knowing what should have been there. After the McCalls magazine article, could it be that quilters simply threw up their hands and said "Forget it!" We'll never know, probably, but it would be interesting to know if other quilt shows had reduced numbers in quilt entries.