I personally would love to see more young people quilting. I always feel so out of place going into LQS. I'm always the only young one, (I'm still in my 20's) and I feel like having kids in tow is frowned upon. It's like the older generation has forgotten that they too were once tied down with kids. Once I was told to hurry up shopping and take the crying baby out. Baby was 3 months old at the time. That's why I do a lot of online shopping and this forum; no one cares if my kids are right behind me and I don't need to fabric shop and carry a carseat too. I think if there were more of my generation sewing and quilting it would become more acceptable. There would also probably be more weekend sewing guild meetings too. I have always wanted to join a group or quilting bee, but the meeting times are always in the middle of the day or in the evenings, right at dinner and bath times for kids. Anyway, that's my two cents worth. Hopefully my generation catches up and we will all quilting when we are retired.
Then again, it was my generation that panicked then social media went down for four hours one day, so who knows how much hope we can have!
Last edited by NZquilter; 10-06-2021 at 05:44 AM.