Hi from a Husband of a quilter in North Central PA
08-02-2010, 06:04 PM
#41
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Location: Madison Heights, VA
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Originally Posted by nursie76
Originally Posted by cjomomma
Hi and welcome to the board. May I ask what your wife' s board name is. We are a family here. All the men and women we seem to share our lives with each other.
He really is my better half, no doubt about it...was just "consulting with him on colors for the border of a quilt a little while ago.
Maybe you folks can help me convince him to learn to quilt 8-)
08-02-2010, 06:08 PM
#42
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Originally Posted by mstandridge
my father is an avid quilter, my mother also quilts. but dad took is up after he was disabled due to rhemitod arthris. It keeps his hands limber. they can always be counted on to donate a quilt for any function such as grads from church to church fund raiser even church conferences. Neither one has gotten into FMQ to hard on their hands but mom ties all the quilts. here are a coulpe pictues of their work the first is my nephew kyle's church graduation quilt. I actually did the blocks and never got around to setting them so gave them to them. they thought it was extra special that his aunt had mad the blocks.
the second is a second quilt my dad made using thangles. i was trying to get hin to do HST were still working on them but since I'm in Missouri and they are in Minnesota its a challenge. but I am very proud to have a dad that quilts!! Now I just need to get my husband quilting, but his support is AWESOME!!!
the second is a second quilt my dad made using thangles. i was trying to get hin to do HST were still working on them but since I'm in Missouri and they are in Minnesota its a challenge. but I am very proud to have a dad that quilts!! Now I just need to get my husband quilting, but his support is AWESOME!!!
08-02-2010, 06:11 PM
#43
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Central Illinois
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Welcome! I do hope you try your hand at a few blocks and see what happens! I'm lucky my DH is patient with my hobby, but he is very colorblind and can't fully appreciate the patterns created by blocks and the various fabrics. But he's willing to let me choose any colors I want to decorate! How great that you can help with selecting fabrics. Let us see your first project!
08-03-2010, 05:33 AM
#44
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Illinois
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Welcome. Its great have a "quilting supporter" amoungst us. Just an FYI the fastest growing section of quilters is men. Two years in a row at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago the Best of show ribbon/prize went to a man.
08-03-2010, 06:32 AM
#45
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: DE
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Hi Husband and welcome from nearby northern Delaware.
I chuckled when you said nursie could see a quilt shop anywhere you went. We were in California last week (unfortunately for DH sister's funeral), but had a few hours free and went to a Quilt shop - where else. I have been looking for a print related to camping, and actually found 2 different ones and they happened to be having a 20% off sale to boot. Can't beat that, so keep goin to those out of the way shops.
I chuckled when you said nursie could see a quilt shop anywhere you went. We were in California last week (unfortunately for DH sister's funeral), but had a few hours free and went to a Quilt shop - where else. I have been looking for a print related to camping, and actually found 2 different ones and they happened to be having a 20% off sale to boot. Can't beat that, so keep goin to those out of the way shops.
08-03-2010, 08:24 AM
#48
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Location: NYS Finger Lakes Region
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I read in a FL paper about a hubby who helped his wife sandwich her quilts. When she passed away he decided to finish her unfinished one in her honor so he went to her weekly quilting group meeting to learn how. He has since made 16 quilts start to finish. Don't wait until it's too late; enjoy this new hobby together. My hubby isn't interested, but lets me spend as much time doing it as I like without a complaint. The worst I've ever heard is, "I'm getting a little hungry, shall I fix us something or are you going to?"
And I can't complain about that!
And I can't complain about that!
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