ANDREAS WOLF is a German quilter who owns a quilting and fabric shop. At Festival of Quilts 2007, he helped sell long-arm quilting machines, which cost around $31,000 each. The machines are computerized and can be programmed with designs or operated manually. PHOTOGRAPH BY K.J. HASCALL
makes learning much more flexible,” Kemshall said. For Linda Kemshall, perhaps it is both the tangible and intangible benefits of the business that drive her forward. Her love of quilting motivates her as she helps pioneer a new dimension of the quilting industry. But the Kemshalls’ online courses are
not free. The cost of one entire course is 650 British pounds, or about $1,300. Furthermore, Kemshall did not grow up dreaming of opening a virtual quilting center. Her love of the craft guided her there. Salmon did not set out to be a career quilt capitalist, either. “I think there’s a long way to go be-
fore you could make a sort of career choice in (the quilting) route,” Salmon said of the way quilt-related business owners advance through the industry. “Most of those particular people came to running a company because they had a love for stitch in the first place, and the love for stitch became a bit of a business, and a bit of a business grew up.”
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