I've had my hubby for 32 years and he's a wonderfully caring and gentle man. He's a jack of all trades, he fixes cars,builds sheds and shelves(in my sewing room)and grows wonderful vegetables for us. He redid the closet in my sewing room so I'd have space for my boxes of fabric and sewing machines. I collect Featherweights(4 so far) and treadle machines. He stopped complaining about the fabric years ago. lol
When I broke my ankle 2 months ago, found out he's a great nurse and very gentle and more patient.
Every Spring there is a gathering of sewing machine nuts about a 100 miles away and he goes with me.
I think I'll keep him.
Sharon W.

Jeanne,
I love your avatar. Where can I find that pattern? Is it applique?

Mine has a hobby - CNN. I get sick of it and have a great excuse to escape to "my room."

AMEN--most of us are very "lucky" indeed. Warren does not object to my quilting and the space it takes, with two sewing machines, this computer, bookcases, file cabinet, quilting frame in this room (he has a table desk that is entirely his) so I try to be with him when he likes it, during ball games and in the living room with his country-western music. No hobbies, but he does not resent mine. In fact, he is great in decifding who gets each quilt, outside of my family of neices, sisters, and he loves giving our towell and potholder sets I make every year, still thinking that the scrap files will be diminished.

This is such a great topic! I too have a wonderful hubby that fully supports any of my endeavors...including quilting. When I was stuck in the hospital a couple of years ago he went and bought every quilting magazine he could find so I wouldn't be bored! He is so proud of everthing that I make, especially the things I make for him. He likes to go to fabric stores with me, that way he can pick out some things that he wants, too! ;)

My is very supportive and always praises my work. Anytime I need something done in my sewing room he is always willing to help me, but I could tell that he was missing me in the evenings. So now, I make sure that I have hand work to do so I can sit and watch something with him. It's really such a small thing to keep him happy.

I made a smart remark about my husband's CNN hobby but he really is a keeper. He supports my hobb(ies), has built sewing and computer furniture and, most surprising, has bought as gifts sewing aids I didn't know existed. One of the most useful is Kelly curved forceps for grasping and pulling out stitching threads. Above all, he cooks while I sew and expresses interest and praise for my work.

You, my dear, are a hoarder!! 4 featherweights??? Good grief! Spread them out!! JK!!! LOL!! Lucky you on the machines and the hubby!!! And a nursing side too?? You have it made!

Guess I'll praise my man, too. He is hobbyless, but likes watching old movies, sometimes over and over and over. He's pretty supportive of my sewing (I just began sewing in Jan of this year) and willing to help me save money by making my ironing board extension, and making a support leg for the corner of it. He's always growling to others that I've made a quilt for the grandkids but not for him! I'll get to it, but there are 5 more grandkids first!! LOL! I started my hobby because I was SOOO lonely...he'd go to the man cave and I'd be alone to watch TV or mess on the computer catching up to the kids and grandkids. I longed for something to pull us together, but unless I'm willing to move into the cave and rewatch movies, it's not going to happen, cuz he isn't going to bend and inch. So, now I've found something I really enjoy and he's just fine with it! And no more loneliness cuz I've got all of you to talk to, get advice from, etc!!

Here is where I posted the butterfly quilt. if you read down the comments I post the book and pattern .

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50177-1.htm

Happy butterfly making!

After reading about your wonderful other half I have come to the conculusion I want one too. Which quilting shop sells them 'cause I haven't found one after years of searching.

They usually don't come that way. It takes years of training.
My DH and I have been married for 37 years and he just keeps getting better. :)

I don't have a husband, but
if I did, he would have to
allow for the messy life
style of this quilter.

Mine built a beautiful floor and walkway into my greenhouse. You can see pictures on my blog. He's generally a pretty good guy.

Mine does, even when it spills over from my room. 45 years ago I was tidier (no fabric) but he has gracefully evolved with me.

I am blessed with a wonderful caring husband.
He shares my passion for collecting antique/vintage sewing machines.
He has a great eye for color in fabric choices.
He's very supportive of adding to my stash, always asking if I want to visit my favorite quilt shop when we are in the area.
He's handy and creative. He's giving and gives of himself.
Many of my vintage machines are because he has traded his hobby items for them.
I am most blessed for my husband.
But most of all my husband is a Godly man. He is what he is because of God.

My husband is great too! He has built me some many things, too, not only for my sewing room but knitting looms and the list does go on. And most of all he always compliments me and likes the things I make, paint, etc. I love him so much. He is the answer to my prayer, almost 28 years ago, for a husband!!

Tell him beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this is a part of your soul'

Ask him what makes his soul smile. He might be suprised at the answer.

He also installed a screen door so I can keep it open w/o the cats running in and out.

Oh gosh, I thought mine was the only one who put a screen door on for an inside door. I too have a screen door at the entrance to my studio. Keeps those little four legged creatures out of my fabric. Although one sits in front of the door and meows to get attention.

My hubby has COPD so he can't do all the things he used to do for me and is now on Hospice but is very supportive. He even gave me permission to buy the small pieces to make a quilt frame for quilting. I will store them, then after he has passed, his room will become my quilting room. His is the largest bedroom. He is great.

I have bragged on my DH earlier in the post, but as I was reading the comments about the hubbys wanting you to spend time with them, it just reminded me that my DH had his solution for that too....we have matching rocker recliners in my sew room and a TV so he can "keep me company" and in my office he has his own chair and a TV there too. When I am in the dining room AKA Juki and frame room, there isn't room for him, but he doesn't complain, he even put a little TV in there so I can watch/listen to it while I am practicing (hopefully will get better at that type of quilting soon). Yep, he definitely is a keeper! Today and tomorrow our Bernina dealer is having a grand opening of their new store....he was already there today on his lunch hour checking things out, and we plan on going together first thing tomorrow. You are right, we are lucky to have supportive hubbies....I am very blessed to have him in my life for the past 34 years. Here's to 34 more! ;-)

I am so sorry to learn that your hubby has COPD. Did he ever smoke? The reason I ask is because I was diagnosed with emphysema about 4 months and I tried only one cigarette during the summer of 1968. My husband was in Vietnam and I thought I needed something to keep the hands busy! Fortunately, that one made me so sick I never tried again. I've been around smokers all my life though.

I wish you and your husband the very best of your time together!

My wonderful husband helps builds things for me for my sewing room. He did some plumbing for a friend and instead of money for payment, he got me a Handi-Quilter and then bought me a machine for it! He supports me and always tells me how wonderful my quilts look, even if he doesn't really like the colors, he knows I do, or someone does. He is positive about my hobby and doesn't mind my spending his money on quilting/sewing things. The last time he came into my sewing room, he looked around and said, "I think you need more shelves." What a keeper!

Oh, I am so sorry he is treating you like this. He is insecure, I am sure. Have you made him a snuggle quilt, maybe with fabric of his favorite sport. Maybe this would make him like what you do,, more. Just a thought! In the mean time just smile at him and thank him for his remarks. He might think about what he said and realize how hurtful he is being.

My hubby is the fabric picker. :) I'll show him the quilt design I want to do, the colors I have in mind, and he'll go with me to Joann's and look at the colors and pull one out and ask me about it. Most of the time, if not all the time, I agree with his picks!

One project I was working with all blues and he put them all against each other to make sure there was enough difference in them for my quilt.

My husband got COPD from welding. The shop where he once worked had no exhaust fans. The smoke would be so bad they had to stoop down about 2 ft. from floor and look to see if anyone was coming before they moved. His lungs are black not gray. Gray lungs are from smoking. He also smoked but dr. said his is from the welding. Thank you for caring.

My husband doesn't fix anything - most especially my machines. And he doesn't build me shelves or help improve my sewing area at all. BUT, today (gasp) when I went out and bought a new Jamone Memory Craft 1100, and a new Evolution Baby Lock Serger (YEAH - I will pick them up on Wed next), he just smiled and said - good job on the prices you got. Gotta love that - lots!!!

I saw this post and had to tell about my wonderful husband..Dale. We have been married for 31 years. He never gets mad, never cusses...is always so sweet and loving. Twenty years ago..I came home from work and said that the owner of the flower shop was closing his shop. A few days past..and Dale came home from work..and said "you are opening your own shop". In 2 weeks we were open. Our daughter got married 4 years ago..and on the way home from the wedding he said "I want you to close the shop and stay home now..you can quilt til your heart is content. So..We closed the shop. He surprised me with a new Bernina 730. We went to a quilt show in Hampton roads Virginia..when we left there..guess what..a longarm machine was the purchase of the day. He takes me on day trips to Lancaster and we go to the quilt shops. He tells me to buy anything I want. He amazes me everyday. I inherited some money when my father passed. I finally could do something for him..I had his garage..his man cave..renovated. He is so tickled with the gift..I love to see his face when he is in there..loving his space. He has been a wonderful father to our two children. He is always helping them..always guiding them and praising them with their accomplishments. I am so blessed to have this wonderful man for my best friend, the love of my life, husband and father to two great kids. Hats off to Dale!!!!

My wonderful husband helped me lay out patterns so I wouldn't waste material, adapted my sewing cabinet to accommidate a different machine and was about to make me a large cutting area and sewing table combined when he died suddenly. Whenever the topic of DH's comes up I'm reminded of all the selfless thinks he did for me for 32 years. He been gone for over 12 years now and I miss him more than ever. Thank you all for listening...

Andie

LOL, a content wife is a happy wife and a happy wife will make a happy husband. Be gentle and tell him you need to be a well rounded person and quilting makes you happy. Teach him to piece quilts too. Then you will share a hobby. Maybe he's waiting for an invite!

Yes....I have one of those husbands. He has built me two oak tables
with drawers, an oak reproduction Coats and Clark Thread Box (huge), an oak cutting table that is very large, with 8 baskets (4 on ea. side).....Also put a huge design wall that takes up one whole wall. Love my sewing room.

He is a fantastic wood worker. Designed and built our home also.
Geeze, and held down a full time job. Now retired and is building from the ground up a 1932 Ford Roadster. Almost done know.
The guy can't sit still...LOL

Gotta love him though....I have MS and it was heart breaking to get the news. He is great through it all.

Now does the grocery shopping, helps me with housework....

Maybe I can rent him out....LOL

My husband isn't the handy type, I am. I do all the repairs in the house. I have put in walls, floors, plumbing, ped boards on the walls in the garage, paneling in my sewing room, paint, wallpaper etc, but I don't mind. I don't know why I have a talent for doing a lot of things. I just look at things then I have a desire to do them. I own all the tools in my house and love working with them. My husband hasen't built me a sewing room but he has always supported me in my quilting. He buys me gift certificates for Joann's and never complains about anything I buy quilt related. He encourages me to meet with my quilting group which meets once a week for about 7 months each year. So even though he is not the handy guy is a good guy in other ways.

Mine is the same way!

Love the guy dearly, but there are times when I just don't get him. He doesn't understand my desire for a longarm, but buys a car at the same cost and can't understand wh I'm not all jping up and down with joy. It's a car, it's a nice car and I enjoy driving it, but it is just a car. (sigh) SSo I wait a few years longer......

My late husband surprised me one day. I was coming back home as he was just finishing teaching a martial arts lesson. No one was in the dojo . He brought his guy to see the quilt I was quilting. He was telling them about the work it involves. When he saw me , he said . I love my wife because she is old-fashioned!

That is so precious.

Teach him to quilt or at least how to cut. He may well like it.
If he needs a hobby quilting is a good one. MNM

Teach him to quilt! lol

Boy! may hat is off to Dale. You truley are blessed.. MNM

yea mine helps too - he stays out of the way!!!

It is a great relationship we do some things together but we both of our own things we can do!! Mine happen to be cooking, cleaning quilting and baking his golf, hockey and watching sports

It is not for everyone but it works for us - coming up 38 years

we have fun with our friends and families but are independent enough to do our own things too!! perfect for us!!!