If you take the last 10 years as an overview we are seeing some of the same kind of issues that occurred when rotary cutters and quilt stores and quilt books appeared in the mid-70's. There was a type of breath of relief revolution in our life and output as it related to quilting.
20-25 years ago machine quilted quilts came to the forefront. If you've ever seen a display of quilts from the 1800's you will know that as soon as women had machines, quilts have been machine quilted. But today's output is so far from then as to nearly be a different subject...
Current overview are machine fabric cutters and store bought precuts. Simple colors and simple quilting. While I embrace none of these things they are changing our overview of quilting whether we believe it or not. On the other hand english paper piecing is back with a vengeance...so there is always a balance perhaps? The one true thing is there will always be change as long as there is breath.
Last edited by KalamaQuilts; 01-08-2015 at 10:00 AM.