Our daughter lives in Paducah and my husband and I go there every April to go to Quilt Week/Quilt Show. The first year that she lived there, my husband did not want to go with us to the Quilt show/shopping, etc. so he stayed at her house and had a miserable time, could not operate their "fancy" TV - had nothing to do, etc. - so the next year, I paid his way into the Quilt show and then he was our "holder" whenever we bought something, or had a bolt of material to take to the cutting table, etc. He actually had a good time - being around hundreds of women!!! I asked him later what he thought the average age of the quilters was and he said "70" and that they were all from Iowa. Yes, most of the ladies had on name tags with their city/state on it but I was quite certain that they were not all from Iowa. So, I asked him about that - he said that the ladies were all "corn fed" - meaning that they were "plump". You see, we live on a farm and feed our cows corn to get them fat enough to take to market. So, they were about 70 and a bit chubby. Fast forward to this past April and I asked him again what he thought the average age was and he said it was "much younger" as a lot of the women had tie-dyed hair with fushia, parrot green or blue, had piercings and had tattoos. So, a much younger bunch have taken up quilting with new, fresh ideas!!!!!