does your husband
08-29-2010, 12:48 PM
#121
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Location: Chaumont NY
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Hey kathy we share an anniversary only mine is 29 years
and we also are 50/60 ish And I keep mine he makes a weekly shopping trip with me to Joannes to pick out fabric with me
last week he came home and said someone up the street has a sewing machine for sale want to go and look
and we also are 50/60 ish And I keep mine he makes a weekly shopping trip with me to Joannes to pick out fabric with me
last week he came home and said someone up the street has a sewing machine for sale want to go and look
08-29-2010, 01:57 PM
#122
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Location: Northwest Ohio
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When I go fabric shopping, my husband says "yes dear" to everything I want. Of course, he always says that, so who could ask for anything more. He has supported all my crafts for the last 44 years and counting.
08-29-2010, 02:23 PM
#124
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Location: South Carolina
Posts: 621
My DH is also a keeper. I wanted to get back into quilting and he really encouraged me. I showed him a pic of the Bernina 830 and said if I wanted it, to go get it. LOL.. I then told him how much it cost. He coughed and said... "You better use it every day for the rest of your life for that price!" I didn't get it, but just the fact that he didn't say NO was enough for me.
He examines my work and will even tell me to take something apart because I could do better.
He helped me make my design wall, put it up for me and has even gone with me to Jo-Ann's several times. I send him to find something and usually finds what I was looking for and more. If I complain about something, (like my cutting table.. it's too small and too low) he tells me to go out and get a better one.
It's a big trade off, he's also into cars and has restored a 81 Corvette. I helped him for many years with that project. Now he's working on restoring a car for me. A 68 MGB.
I think I'll keep him around for awhile longer. LOL
He examines my work and will even tell me to take something apart because I could do better.
He helped me make my design wall, put it up for me and has even gone with me to Jo-Ann's several times. I send him to find something and usually finds what I was looking for and more. If I complain about something, (like my cutting table.. it's too small and too low) he tells me to go out and get a better one.
It's a big trade off, he's also into cars and has restored a 81 Corvette. I helped him for many years with that project. Now he's working on restoring a car for me. A 68 MGB.
I think I'll keep him around for awhile longer. LOL
08-29-2010, 03:00 PM
#126
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Location: North Carolina
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Originally Posted by raptureready
My husband doesn't support much of anything that I do. There's days when I can't even breathe to suit him. But, he doesn't want me to give anything away so I guess that means that he likes it. And he uses the quilt I made for him every night so he must like it too, he just would never say so. He's just one of those "glass half empty" sort of people that doesn't believe in allowing himself the pleasure of being happy. We're total opposites in just about everything. He like the outdoors, I don't. He like to gripe, I like to laugh. He's very tight and possessive, I'm more of a free spirited share everything type. But I've gotten used to him and when he's in one of his "moods" I just go upstairs and sew, so I guess I'll keep mine too. Besides, it would cost too much to get rid of him and I'm too old to break in a new one. LOL
08-29-2010, 03:28 PM
#127
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Location: Australia
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My DH is a wonderfully supportive man. He never says anything about my buying fabric or going out to quilt in fact he encourages it.
My DD on the other hand will comment about my buying more fabric if I bring any home and he tells her to leave me alone -" it makes your mum happy" he tells her.
I often hear him telling people what I am working on and also waits for me while I am in quilting shops. Sometimes he will come in even.
Yes I will keep him too :lol:
Maybe1day
My DD on the other hand will comment about my buying more fabric if I bring any home and he tells her to leave me alone -" it makes your mum happy" he tells her.
I often hear him telling people what I am working on and also waits for me while I am in quilting shops. Sometimes he will come in even.
Yes I will keep him too :lol:
Maybe1day
08-29-2010, 03:30 PM
#128
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Missouri
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Originally Posted by Tegakat
Originally Posted by raptureready
My husband doesn't support much of anything that I do. There's days when I can't even breathe to suit him. But, he doesn't want me to give anything away so I guess that means that he likes it. And he uses the quilt I made for him every night so he must like it too, he just would never say so. He's just one of those "glass half empty" sort of people that doesn't believe in allowing himself the pleasure of being happy. We're total opposites in just about everything. He like the outdoors, I don't. He like to gripe, I like to laugh. He's very tight and possessive, I'm more of a free spirited share everything type. But I've gotten used to him and when he's in one of his "moods" I just go upstairs and sew, so I guess I'll keep mine too. Besides, it would cost too much to get rid of him and I'm too old to break in a new one. LOL
08-29-2010, 03:30 PM
#129
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Location: Illinois
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my husband is my greatest fan of my when it comes to quilting
if i am quilting on something that i really want to get done he will tell me not to worry about dinner we can order take out !! he pays for all of my material that i buy and backs me up 100% when i asak him how this and that looks!
if i am quilting on something that i really want to get done he will tell me not to worry about dinner we can order take out !! he pays for all of my material that i buy and backs me up 100% when i asak him how this and that looks!
08-29-2010, 03:37 PM
#130
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Poconos, PA
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It seems there are as many types of husbands as there are quilters. Mine is a real sweetheart and supports my quilting. When I first got interested, he went on line and found the Grace frame site and we got a frame even though I did not know much about quilting. He is very patient in putting stuff together (not in other things though) and put it together and now it sits in front of my double windows in the dining room. He does, however, wonder what I am ever going to do with all those fabrics I collected in a moment of madness. He is definitely a keeper and after 47 years, we put up with each other and our foibles.
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