I wonder if the addiction is sex related as in limited to women? Are there any gentlemen quilters here who have the same problem? I tried to explain the phenomenon to my late husband and he just shook his head. Of course, he had a gun safe full of shot guns most of which he bought because they were beautiful or some how or other more useful than the others. You can only shoot a pheasant with one gun as far as I'm concerned. We decided to be tolerant of each other's madness.