One more quick observation that I wish to point out here. There will be rocks to step over for even the 21st Century Quilter. This magazine is about the close and it's former editor made an important comment about the true & hidden state of both public and private education (any age, not just traditional school age range) that not only the US, but the other developed countries seem to brought to themselves over the last 40-50 years:
"......Quilty is just a magazine in a sea of magazines. Except that it isn’t. Before Quilty, there was never a magazine devoted entirely to the beginner quilter. It was my vision that this absolutely had to exist if we (quilters and the quilt industry) wanted to bridge a strange, frightening gap that is occurring for the first time in American history — namely, that we have a culture that still values quilts and we have great numbers of people who want to make them, but we have now and will have forever more a culture that does not teach sewing. We are a service industry. We are not manufacturers. For all intents and purposes, manufacturing and fabrication in America is over. We’re not going to start sewing our own clothes again and that means there aren’t sewing machines in the home........"-http://blog.maryfons.com/2015/01/mag...uilty-closing/
No matter what age you started (or will start) to sew-much less quilt-as well. This is the single most important roadblock to still overcome, no matter who you are. Not so much how high tech your chosen gadgetry is
, or fancy notions/fabric, the right quilting guild membership or chosen quilt shop, even cold hard cash could buy.
These are truly interesting times for us all alike, both quilter & non-quilter.
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