{"id":430,"date":"2006-12-03T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2006-12-03T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T16:40:00","slug":"are-you-a-dedicated-quilter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/are-you-a-dedicated-quilter\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You a Dedicated Quilter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According the recent <em>Quilting in America 2006<\/em> survey sponsored by <em>Quilter&#8217;s Newsletter Magazine<\/em> the dedicated quilter is:<\/p>\n<p>* Female<br \/>* 59 years old<br \/>* Well educated (72% attended college)<br \/>* Affluent ($87,026 <span>household <\/span>income)<br \/>* Spend on average $2,304 per year on quilting<br \/>* Quilting for an average of 13.5 years<\/p>\n<p>I am much younger than the dedicated quilter and I know that $2,304 in quilting supplies, classes, etc. does not get you very far! This survey tells me that the dedicated quilter is likely retired or close to retirement which means I have many more years of quilting ahead of me! Yahoo!<\/p>\n<p>Something else that I found interesting the survey is that the average dedicated quilter owns an average of 2.6 sewing machines and 24% own more than 4 machines! If I count my retired Kenmore, my antique Singer, my Bernina that is used for piecing, and my APQS long arm, I own 4 machines!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, 4.7% of all quilters are dedicated quilters and account for 88% of total quilting industry expenditures. That means that if the remaining 95.3% of the quilters out there started to spend anywhere near what the minority or dedicated quilter spends on quilting, there would be an explosion to the quilting industry!<\/p>\n<p>Check the survey out yourself; it is an interesting read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quilts.com\/home\/news\/index.php?page=announcements\/index\">http:\/\/www.quilts.com\/home\/news\/index.php?page=announcements\/index<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According the recent Quilting in America 2006 survey sponsored by Quilter&#8217;s Newsletter Magazine the dedicated quilter is: * Female* 59 years old* Well educated (72% attended college)* Affluent ($87,026 household income)* Spend on average $2,304 per year on quilting* Quilting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/12\/are-you-a-dedicated-quilter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}