Quilting in America™ Survey - 2014

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I stumbled upon some interesting data about us Quilters!

  The Quilting in America™ Survey - 2014.

For the most part I fit right in to their profile,

 Hey! whose been watching me, HUH?

The following are excerpts from the Quilting in America™ survey produced by F & W in cooperation with Quilts Inc.:

...there are more than 16 million active quilters in the country. That means one out of every 20 Americans quilts!

Dedicated Quilters don’t regard quilting as an optional hobby, but as part of their lives. They, like quilters throughout history, quilt during good times and bad. Their quilting is both a means of expressing themselves creatively, and also of expressing what is going on in their lives and how they are dealing with it...

Each Dedicated Quilter is defined as one who spends more than $500 a year on quilting-related purchases, which include sewing machines, fabric, notions, tools, patterns, books, computer programs, batting, and thread. In fact, the Dedicated Quilter actually spent an average of $3,296 per year on quilting.

Demographics of the Dedicated Quilter indicate she is female; about 64; is well-educated (79% attended college); has a household income in excess of $100,000; and has been quilting an average of 20.3 years. Among Dedicated Quilters, 81% are traditionalists, while 38% embrace art quilting, and 35% enjoy modern quilting styles. Some enjoy multiple types of quilting. The Dedicated Quilter wns, on average, almost $13,000 worth of tools and supplies and has a stash of fabric worth nearly $6,000, which the majority (88%) store in a studio or room dedicated solely to sewing and quilting activities.

And quilters are also tech-savvy, with 87% owning a tablet or eBook reader today. The percentage of quilters who access the Internet daily has grown to 86%, up from 73% four years ago. The data indicates that quilters spend 3.5 hours per week watching quilting-related online broadcasting to learn new tips and techniques, get inspiration, purchase fabric, tools, and supplies, and to search for free patterns.

If  you would like to know more about the Quilting Industry and the results of a recent survey produced by F & W in cooperation with Quilts Inc. go to this link and you to see the entire document on their website: http://www.quilts.com/announcements/y2014/QIA_survey.pdf