luvTooQuilt I think you are right on quilting has always been a sharing thing but I am from the old school too where we bought the weekly grit for the quilt pattern then friends would get together for piecing and or hand quilting but then that was the good old days now money and greed comes into everything quilting has so changed that a lot of the get-togethers that went with quilting has just went by the wayside I live in a small town surrounded by other small towns that use to have small quilting groups and yes we did share now the groups are gone and so are the quilting stores now it is driving 100 miles to a quilt store or order on line yes quilting is really changing use t love quilt shows the venders now even vey few of them guess it goes with changing times