Quilt Market Is Gone. Now What?

About this episode

Andi and Tori discuss the implications of the cancellation of Quilt Market for the quilting industry and businesses.

Send us Fan Mail Quilt Market is gone. After decades as the destination event for quilting industry professionals, the fall show has been canceled indefinitely, and Tori and Andi have thoughts. In this episode, they pull back the curtain on what the end of Quilt Market might mean for your business and the quilting industry as a whole, why it may not be the bad news everyone's making it out to be, and what it could signal about where things are heading. They dig into the shift from brick-and-m...

People in this episode

Hosts: Andi Stanfield, Tori McElwain

Topics covered

• Quilt Market
• quilting industry
• business impact
• event cancellation
• future of quilting

Keywords

• Quilt Market
• quilting
• business
• industry trends
• event cancellation

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