I think women have always had the desire to make their bedrooms as well as other rooms in the house "inviting" and pretty. Even the pioneer women made beautiful patterns on their quilts. They didn't just sew hunks of fabric together to stay warm. They created beautiful designs. Everybody appreaciate a little beauty in their home and nowdays we have more colors to choose from. Plus we have all this inovative technology that makes things so much easier and faster. We have better everything to work with. We have just expanded the horizons of the earlier quilters.