We have some great husbands!
#81
Super Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
I've had my hubby for 32 years and he's a wonderfully caring and gentle man. He's a jack of all trades, he fixes cars,builds sheds and shelves(in my sewing room)and grows wonderful vegetables for us. He redid the closet in my sewing room so I'd have space for my boxes of fabric and sewing machines. I collect Featherweights(4 so far) and treadle machines. He stopped complaining about the fabric years ago. lol
When I broke my ankle 2 months ago, found out he's a great nurse and very gentle and more patient.
Every Spring there is a gathering of sewing machine nuts about a 100 miles away and he goes with me.
I think I'll keep him.
Sharon W.
When I broke my ankle 2 months ago, found out he's a great nurse and very gentle and more patient.
Every Spring there is a gathering of sewing machine nuts about a 100 miles away and he goes with me.
I think I'll keep him.
Sharon W.
#82
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: La Verne, CA
Posts: 794
Originally Posted by Lynnejean
My sweet honey bunny has built me so many things for my sewing room I have lost count!! He also really understands the need for good tools (he is a carpenter)if he goes to the quilt shops with me and sees a new tool demo he will want me to buy it. I think I need him to go to one of the big quilt shows with me. Hee Hee! :-)Who knows what I would come home with.
I love your avatar. Where can I find that pattern? Is it applique?
#83
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 272
Originally Posted by vanessa
Since we are on the subject of husbands....
What do you ladies do (or gentleman do) when your spouse wants your attention and has nothing to do with themself? Mine does not have a hobby at all and wants my attention and that keeps me from quilting when I want to. I try to plan days just for us to do things together but he still wants my attention constantly.
What do you ladies do (or gentleman do) when your spouse wants your attention and has nothing to do with themself? Mine does not have a hobby at all and wants my attention and that keeps me from quilting when I want to. I try to plan days just for us to do things together but he still wants my attention constantly.
#84
Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Denver CO
Posts: 93
AMEN--most of us are very "lucky" indeed. Warren does not object to my quilting and the space it takes, with two sewing machines, this computer, bookcases, file cabinet, quilting frame in this room (he has a table desk that is entirely his) so I try to be with him when he likes it, during ball games and in the living room with his country-western music. No hobbies, but he does not resent mine. In fact, he is great in decifding who gets each quilt, outside of my family of neices, sisters, and he loves giving our towell and potholder sets I make every year, still thinking that the scrap files will be diminished.
#85
This is such a great topic! I too have a wonderful hubby that fully supports any of my endeavors...including quilting. When I was stuck in the hospital a couple of years ago he went and bought every quilting magazine he could find so I wouldn't be bored! He is so proud of everthing that I make, especially the things I make for him. He likes to go to fabric stores with me, that way he can pick out some things that he wants, too! ;)
#86
My is very supportive and always praises my work. Anytime I need something done in my sewing room he is always willing to help me, but I could tell that he was missing me in the evenings. So now, I make sure that I have hand work to do so I can sit and watch something with him. It's really such a small thing to keep him happy.
#87
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 272
I made a smart remark about my husband's CNN hobby but he really is a keeper. He supports my hobb(ies), has built sewing and computer furniture and, most surprising, has bought as gifts sewing aids I didn't know existed. One of the most useful is Kelly curved forceps for grasping and pulling out stitching threads. Above all, he cooks while I sew and expresses interest and praise for my work.
#88
Originally Posted by purplefiend
I've had my hubby for 32 years and he's a wonderfully caring and gentle man. He's a jack of all trades, he fixes cars,builds sheds and shelves(in my sewing room)and grows wonderful vegetables for us. He redid the closet in my sewing room so I'd have space for my boxes of fabric and sewing machines. I collect Featherweights(4 so far) and treadle machines. He stopped complaining about the fabric years ago. lol
When I broke my ankle 2 months ago, found out he's a great nurse and very gentle and more patient.
Every Spring there is a gathering of sewing machine nuts about a 100 miles away and he goes with me.
I think I'll keep him.
Sharon W.
When I broke my ankle 2 months ago, found out he's a great nurse and very gentle and more patient.
Every Spring there is a gathering of sewing machine nuts about a 100 miles away and he goes with me.
I think I'll keep him.
Sharon W.
#89
Guess I'll praise my man, too. He is hobbyless, but likes watching old movies, sometimes over and over and over. He's pretty supportive of my sewing (I just began sewing in Jan of this year) and willing to help me save money by making my ironing board extension, and making a support leg for the corner of it. He's always growling to others that I've made a quilt for the grandkids but not for him! I'll get to it, but there are 5 more grandkids first!! LOL! I started my hobby because I was SOOO lonely...he'd go to the man cave and I'd be alone to watch TV or mess on the computer catching up to the kids and grandkids. I longed for something to pull us together, but unless I'm willing to move into the cave and rewatch movies, it's not going to happen, cuz he isn't going to bend and inch. So, now I've found something I really enjoy and he's just fine with it! And no more loneliness cuz I've got all of you to talk to, get advice from, etc!!
#90
Here is where I posted the butterfly quilt. if you read down the comments I post the book and pattern .
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50177-1.htm
Happy butterfly making!
Jeanne,
I love your avatar. Where can I find that pattern? Is it applique?
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50177-1.htm
Happy butterfly making!
Originally Posted by Quilting Nana
Originally Posted by Lynnejean
My sweet honey bunny has built me so many things for my sewing room I have lost count!! He also really understands the need for good tools (he is a carpenter)if he goes to the quilt shops with me and sees a new tool demo he will want me to buy it. I think I need him to go to one of the big quilt shows with me. Hee Hee! :-)Who knows what I would come home with.
I love your avatar. Where can I find that pattern? Is it applique?
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