I think the only thing I have "given up" is the obsessive reading. One obsession for another :) I haven't given up sleep but do lose alot of it due to planning and whatnot of the next quilt.

I do still read just not as much - I like to take periodic breaks from quilting and that is when I pick up a few good books again.

Everything except the exercise! My exercise involves getting up from the chair to iron, going out to the shop (about 35 feet from the door and involves 3 steps down/up)...I think I get PlENTY of exercise! Doc doesn't agree though...LOL

Actually, I haven't given up much....I enjoy all the other stuff AND I'm so much more by having this board. I've developed friendships from being in here.....every day, every hour...LOL

I am very selfish with my quilting time. DH expected me to go to sporting events with him. I asked him to go to a quilt trunk show one time. He said he would never do that again he was bored to death. I said oh really? I haven't been to a sport event since.

I have not given up a thing. I retired last year and my quilting time is a replacement for the 60+ hours per week that I worked. I still get everything else done, including exercise and family time. In fact, I do more of that than I did when I worked. I earned my quilting and QB time and I'm not going to feel guilty about it.

Quilting is something I've gained. It's keeps me busy during the evenings now that we're empty nesters. I go to water aerobics after work twice a week. On those evenings I usualy don't sew and use the time for housework. I usually sew on friday and/or sat nites & a couple of hours during the week. I bring my lunch to work and stay out of the department stores. Everything in moderation.

Ditto

Laundry & sleep..

Unfortunately when hubby gives me his 'look', I know hes out of underwear... :roll:

I really haven't had to give up anything. My quilting works around my schedule not the other way around. We take the dogs out for walks 2 or 3 times a week and go about 2 miles each way.
The house stays clean since there are only two here. Laundry gets done, folded but not always put away the same day. But thats not because of quilting, its cause I am too lazy.....LOL
And meals get cooked, I cook at home alot to control our fat intake.

If I want to have a good time....shopping, etc I leave HIM at the house. If he wants to have a good time hunting/fishing he leaves me at the house. A great arrangement (45 years worth)

I am a crafter...have been all my life, but since I started quilting, I no longer seem to have time to set up for painting, or beading, or any of the other crafts I have loved for a long time. Quilting seems to take care of my need for creativity. It is an art form, that is usable and not just appreciated by sight. My family are grown and moved away and so I do have time to quilt for grands and great-grands. I dont feel I have really given up anything, just turned my creativity down another street.