I never really understood the concept of hiding your stash from your significant other. I mean...really? Some quilters act like they're hiding the evidence of a crime they just commited. Its not like you spent your retirement fund or the kids college money to support your stash building, right?
I have a prince, too. I started going out with a friend shortly after he took me out for Valentine's Day (we we're two singles who didn't want to spend Feb. 14th alone) and our first "official" date was on my birthday a month later. He asked me what I wanted and since he was taking me to the city where my favorite sushi place is I asked him if he would take me to a quilt shop I had heard about. I didn't really expect him to have much input or anything while we were there. But I was looking at some pre-cuts and he asked me what those were. He didn't get bored with me as I explained all the pre-cuts and explained what was the difference between a jellyroll and a honeybun was. He even helped me pick out fabric for a quilt I had planned on making for a friend of the family shortly before he died of cancer (its now going to be a memorial quilt).
Lately I've been getting some dental work done and there's a quilt shop a few blocks away from the clinic. He'll take me there before my appointment, espessily if I'm getting an extraction.
I've tricked him into picking some fabric for his own quilt. I sort of lied to him and said I needed to step outside what I call my "White Stripes color scheme" (White Stripes was a band that wore only black, white, and red). So I had "decided" to make a green scrappy quilt. And the input has been interesting--- Later I decided his quilt was going to be a Winding Ways quilt as the blocks look like clovers and would match his Irish hertitage and his fondness for green. I tricked him into helping me pick a background color for the blocks. Well, I'm not for certain if I have tricked him or if he has caught on, but he's not good at keeping things from me so I figure if he caught on he would have said something.