This video popped up in my YouTube feed yesterday:
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| Watch the video here: |
If you go to the Quilts, Inc website, you can read the full story:
If you are not a shop owner, pattern designer or industry influencer, you may have never attended the market portion of the annual Fall Houston quilt show. If so, check out this video to get a glimpse of what it is like:
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As well as some perspectives by a quilt business that attended this year:
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| Their discussion starts in the video at about 23:00 minutes in. |
So what does this mean, if anything, for us quilt industry customers? It certainly is another sign that the industry we love is changing by leaps and bounds. Following on the heels of the closures of Joann Fabrics (BTW, great video on the history of that here) and Martingale Publishing and the recent deaths of popular industry names like Donna Jordan of Jordan Fabrics (see her last video here) and Daniela Stout of Cozy Quilt Designs (her last update was given here), it can feel like the industry as we know it is collapsing in on itself.
Or maybe it's just time that it downsizes to something more modest than the billion dollar recreational industry it has become. Could we even see a day when it fully returns to its roots as just a cottage craft?
I know for me, I will be clutching my stash going forward and waiting to see what the next evolution will be.
