Like a previous poster, I am the husband. In my case it's a little different. I sew too. Some apparel, some quilts. My wife and I have been going on the shop hop for many years. Our shop hop has many stores and goes to several towns. As someone else said, we try to find places to eat that are new to us. And, yes, sometimes I get a little bored looking at nothing but quilting cotton. But most of the quilt shops have other stores around them, so I'll go and check them out. One year, I wore a shirt I made that had a disappearing four-patch front. Only in one store did anyone notice it. Oh well, I accept that husbands are generally invisible in fabric stores.
Tate