I've got a keeper-DH too. :)

He oooh's and ahhh's over my quilts, even taking photos with his cell phone so he can show the guys he works with. :mrgreen: He never says anything about what I spend. As long as the bills are paid and there's food on the table, he's happy. :wink:

He's answered CraigsList ads for sewing machines and fabric, and even picks fabric for me at the store and has it cut for me ... all by himself.

He can fix just about anything, so if one of my sewing machines needs something, he can usually do it. Shelves for my sewing room ... no problem.

It's funny when we're shopping, because I'll choose a basic item, and he'll point out that for a few dollars more, I can get this fancy model over here! :lol:

He's a keeper! :)

Married 22 years; dated for 6 years. We've been together since I was 13 years old. (Well, I wasn't allowed to date until I was 16, but you know what I mean! LOL!)

This says it all.

While my husband of 33 yrs this month doesn't shop fabric for me or openly support my addiction to quilting, he will buy stuff that i want for quilting . Wheni was looking for a second hand machine to take to the cottage- he bought me a 6600! and he just let me buy a 1948 Fw for my birthday! he can be very generous when he wants and doesn't really have a clue about how much i spend on fabric! i don't think that i want him taking up my hobby b/c he would probably be better at it than me and i'd have to quit! :) I'm keeping him just the same.

I have an aunt that said for every penny he spent on restoring antique tractors she could spend the same amount on her green cherry blossom depression glass hobby. She has a full set (enough to set the big table for holidays) and has extended to collecting other things as their fleet of Allis Chalmers grew. Since their retirement I believe they have all the tractors they want, but she still spends-from they years before her equal spending started.

My hubby also is a car guy. His weakness is corvettes. He has completely restored a 1970. I was in on the color choices and have named her "the other woman". He's supportive with my sewing as it gives him the remote! We will be married 39 years in Sept so I guess we have worked out the ins and outs of our hobbies. and I love riding in 'the other woman'

My husband is quite a supporter of my quilting and sewing he does show off my sewing room and my stash. He admires my quilting and helps me put up the frames. He takes me to quilting stores whenever we are out. All I have to say I need this or that. In fact we have made some trips to HF. Maria

my DH supports my quilting. He knows how many gifts I have made that he didn't have to buy. He built me a 3 sided sewing table and other things that has made my quilting easier. The only thing I have to be sensitive about is not to quilt so much that I don't have time to spend with him.
That's why I have things to hand sew to do in the evening sitting with him to watch TV. We are retired so he has a woodshop where he spends a lot of time. He is so proud of the things I show him.

Quiltmom,
I would've loved to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame and the quilt shops. Your DH sounds like a keeper.
Sharon W.

You let him live after giving your featherweight away??
rofl

4 machines is a drop in the bucket. lol I think I have 11. That doesn't count the 2 treadles that don't work yet. I have 4 featherweights among others.
MY Hubby built me some wonderful shelves in my sewing room(redid the closet). He likes that I make quilts, he says if it makes me happy its okay with him.
He's an enabler of antique machines.
Sharon W.

I definitely think you should keep him. Mine is sure supportive of me...the quilting frame in my avatar picture is one that he designed and built for me when we couldn't afford to buy one...then he built one for a friend of mine who was in the same predicament. He checks in on my and brings me a glass of wine or a cup of tea when he thinks I might be a bit thirsty and oohs and ahs without being encouraged. His hobby is fly-fishing and fly-tying and I reciprocate in good measure. He's a keeper. (Besides, it's too much work to break in a different one! LOL)

My hubby helps me pick out fabrics for my quilts. I'll show him the pattern and tell him what colors I'm wanting to do it in and then he'll help me pick out just the right fabrics

My DH is super supportive and quite the enabler! He has encouraged me to buy my many machines, and fabrics....I say I bought fabric, he says that's good! He wanted me to do machine quilting-I didn't. He made me go look at a frame and when I said I will think about it, he bought it for me with his ebay money!!! He is a keeper! Course, I do the same for his hobbies, and they aren't cheap!

My husband has to approve every thing I want to buy and even then I have to beg him for it. I make quilts for people for spending money and I still have to ask if it's ok or he'll get mad.

My dh is very supportive. My sewing machine (an old Viking #1) recently had an unfortunate meeting with a pin and it was going to be VERY expensive to repair relative to its worth. He let me buy a new BabyLock Symphony. Over Memorial Day we went canoing in Virginia and he had found a quilt shop on the way home that was open on Memorial Day! We pulled up in front and he told me to take as long as I wanted. He waited in the car while I had a ball. His job is very demanding so he has little time for hobbies but he is wonderfully supportive of mine. I have told him that he MUST find a hobby before he retires!

Supports me 100% .... and I thought I had the only "good one" out here!

We celebrated 21yr of marriage in June and to date we have never had a fight! Seriously, not one! [knock on wood]
He's a DEFINITE keeper! :thumbup:

I'm so sorry. It is so hard to live in that environment. I hope you find a way to have control of your own money. Hugs.

Let's see...you're in Montana...do his hobbies include fly fishing?

My husband and I will take a weekday and have a "field trip" This includes 2 quilt shops for each brew pub that we go to. We usually do 1 shop-he reads while I shop-then lunch at a brewery. He comes home with "growlers"-1/2 gallon jugs of beer, and I have something to add to my stash! We're both happy and we've had a nice day together! We plan our day trips about quilt shops that have brew pubs in the area-it works out great for both of us! Course I get the added benefit of lunch/dinner as well as supporting my habit!

I was in a state of shock when I found out what he had done. I got the FW in 57 with abuttonholer and all the attachments. It has cost him 5 machines since, and any time I say I'm going to the LQS he doesn't ask why. He doesn't bother anything without asking now. I just can't understnd why he won't let me have at least half the garage.

I also have a geat husband. He even comes in to be with me when I sew. He has a 76 Corvette that he enjoys. I took him with me on a Quilt Shop Hop and one of the quilt stores let him use their long arm. He would love to own one, he enjoyed it that much. We have a small home and don't have a room that we can set it up in. We have been married for 38 years and I'm deffinitely keeping him!!!!

You are truly blessed!

I don't consider my husband an "enabler", but it's great that we are both busy with our own activities!

I am fortunate as well to have a husband that does not complain of my new "adventure" :) I have only been into quilting a year now and so love it. It keeps me thinking and busy. I had been "retired" for 3 yrs and had not gotten into anything other than surfing the net before trying to crochet again after yrs of not.. and then finding this site and becoming enthusiastic with quilting! I had always liked sewing, but quilting to me is more then sewing, it is rewarding, creating and sharing and relaxing to me. My husband is happy that I have a new spark of life and excited to be doing something I enjoy. He loves music, playing the guitar lol I must say that I have little by little taken over the back basement area with all the sewing tables and stuff! He still has a spot and I try to give him his time in there in the evenings!! So I can say, he is very supportive of my new habit!! :)

That man has some serious control issues. I would not put up with it for one day :(

My DH says I have too much fabric already and will never use it all in the limited time I have left on this earth. He's probably right, but I tell him I have plenty of time. If I live 30 more years, I'll only be 105. My Aunt Nannie is still living at 110. To his credit, he doesn't say anything about the rotary cutter blades, rulers, etc that I buy to try to use up all that fabric.

I'm new to quilting. My husband has been watching me go through the learning process. The good and the bad. lol When I finished my first quilt top he just couldn't wait to share it with the people he works with and took it carefully wrapped to work with him! Theres no telling what he is going to do when I finish quilting it. I guess he is a keeper too.

I agree about the control issues....sounds like he has some worries about finances or something. Quilting is an expensive hobby...but counseling is MORE expensive. I'd be about finding out what's behind this and try to reassure him....or put his butt to the curb!! Sorry, the devil made me say that.

I met my husband in a biker bar. :)

Met mine through a family member I was seventeen and he thought I was twelve. Then several years later we met up again and married three months later and have been together for close to 30 years since

My husband is like yours. Completely supportive, even bought a serger for me on Craigslist and if he sees anything regarding fabric or sewing machines will email it to me (he loves Craigslist!) But he knows that I am frugal and most likely will pass up all these temptations, LOL.

He even suggested that I use the master bedroom for my sewing 'studio' and we use smaller, cozy retreat off to the side for our bedroom. so yes, that is my sewing room!

Congrats on your 40th Anniversary. We had our 39th this past March. Great marriages do last!

warm quilt hugs, sue in CA

My DH and I were classmates all though school (first grade through graduation). We dated during junior and senior years. Married after college. We think alike in many ways, but basically are opposites. He likes what he likes and I like what I like. We've learned to get along no matter what. And after 48 years, I'll keep him.

I think we took all the good ones and you are right!! They are rare. Single dtr tells me that there are none left.

My husband is very supportive. He knows how happy quilting makes me.

Perfect! :) :) :)

Mine is also a peach.58 1/2 years for us. His hobby--Gunsmoke, Bananza, Andy Griffith, all day every day. It is Great. We worked side by side for 40 yrs running a contract sewing business. Raised 7 kids in the shop with us, 6 girls and one boy, all can sew, some quilt, some tailor, they all have thread in their viens. It has been a great happy life. Can not be happy without fabric around. :) :) :)

My husband is very supportive of my quilting. Anything I want he says to get it...of course not everything or we would be broke. He brags about my quilts and tells everyone I do a good job...I am my own worst critic. Of course, he has his own hobbies which I try to take interest in, which makes it very good for both of us. We have been married for 13 years, going on 14 after November. Guess he is a keeper :thumbup:

The husband of everybody's mother has the same taste in TV programs as my DH. Sometimes I watch with him. I especially like Andy Griffith, but I would still rather be working on my current quilt.

I got the last of his kind. No other man I have ever met is as good as him. It's not every guy who will toss his wife into a fabric store with a loaded Visa card and smile when she walks out the door with a big bag of goodies. And he is a nice guy to boot.

LOL Yeah he supports it all right. He works 40 hours a week and I go to the fabric store when I want!

I am truly happy that you girls have such supportive husbands, you are blessed!