I love reading about all the wonderful husbands that help build stuff, fix stuff and make quilting easier for all of us. My hubby stayed up late fixing the timing on my older Singer Stylist. It's my favorite machine and I was worried about sending her away for fixing. He got on line and did some research and now she sews better than before! I'm so impressed by how supportive and helpful he is!

My sweet honey bunny has built me so many things for my sewing room I have lost count!! He also really understands the need for good tools (he is a carpenter)if he goes to the quilt shops with me and sees a new tool demo he will want me to buy it. I think I need him to go to one of the big quilt shows with me. Hee Hee! :-)Who knows what I would come home with.

Same here! Let's hear it for them!!! I've switched sewing rooms 3 times and my hubby had to remove pegboard and reinstall it, never complained even once! He also installed a screen door so I can keep it open w/o the cats running in and out.
What a nice post :)

Since we are on the subject of husbands....

What do you ladies do (or gentleman do) when your spouse wants your attention and has nothing to do with themself? Mine does not have a hobby at all and wants my attention and that keeps me from quilting when I want to. I try to plan days just for us to do things together but he still wants my attention constantly.

Vanessa, he needs a hobby!!! It's a shame he can't just do something independently while you do. We all need our own space sometimes. That's what I would tell him, really.
I can't give anyone my undivided attention all the time. Did that when my kids were little, now done!

My husband is a saint. The quilting he appreciates and puts up with , but he also married into my dog rescue.

Last night, I came home with 6 more puppymill dogs. There is mud everywhere, and frightened dogs. He helped me bathe them, and held each one for a little while.

I know that he'll come home from lunch today and do the mid day mopping, because I have to work in an office today instead of at home.

It's raining here, and the new scared dogs keep going outside, where there are no people (just lots of wet mud) and with 15 dogs in the house temporarily (until some of the new ones go to their foster homes) it's a giant mess.

My DH is very supportive and always praises my work. He very rarely says anything about what I spend, or how much I quilt. 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.

my husband half supports me when it suits him, LOL it's my mother i have the most problems with,

Susan,

You are so right. I wish I could be more assertive when it comes to this. I try to quilt when he is at work too. He only works part-time now and I work full-time. I do love it when I can get some me time but that doesn't happen to often. I will have to work harder on being assertive.

Vanessa

Saturday I went to Joann's for their sale. Hubby was with me. I forgot my coupons in the car so he went out and got them for me while I was at the cutting table. Then after I checked out he took the bag to the car for me while I did another errand in the mall!

He is always very supportive of my quilting!

Go buy him a new pair of jeans. Tell them they're his Big Boy Britches and he's to wear them every time you need to work on your quilting. Also explain that when he puts them on he'll feel empowered to do something for himself--by himself. Either that or teach him to quilt. :lol: :lol: And trust me, it could be worse. Mine is so insecure that he lashes out all the time with negative comments. Even though I know he doesn't really mean them they still hurt. I've been working so hard on making his grandson and great grandaughters quilts for Christmas and the other day he said that everything I make looks like s_ _ _! I know he didn't mean it but it still cut to the bone.

I've got a keeper too! :D: On top of being very supportive, he has a great eye for fabric and design. When I get "stuck" he can sometimes see something that I was looking too hard to see. Its great to have such a great friend right here to help me out!

Ooh Rapture, he needs to go to the bad boy corner. LOL. My DH is so understanding not only of this board and my quilting but to all my other quilting activities. And he stays busy now making Sewing machine lifters for me to sell. He has also made shelves and such for my sewing room and helps me go to the post office, ec. In turn, when I see he is settled in to watch a little tv , I go in there to sit until he falls asleep. Now if he did not go to sleep so early, that may be anotehr issue ROFL. ALl in all he is wonderful.On some of my projects, his saying is (when he doesn't fully like what I do...YOur take off sucks...but the landing is fine. So now he knows to wait to see my finshed projects. LOL. GOtta love them.

my dh is the best inthe world. he hasn't made anything for me, he's not handy, but he will go to the fab sore with me and even at times when i couldn't he'd go for me.He now golfs, since we moved 3 months ago, but b4 that he didn't mind. we moved to a 2 bedroom condo, and the 2nd bris my sewing crafts room. isn't he swet

MY SIL's sewing room has a recliner and TV for her hubby! Of course he had to move her sewing room into another room to make room for him! LOL,

Oh WOW that really hurts. I'm glad you have friends like us on this forum to keep you going at what YOU like to do.

My DH totally is an enabler when it comes to my hobbies! When it was cross stitch, he had me buy every thread that DMC made so that I would never have to wait to get that one color-I should already have it! With quilting, a little more impossible, but when I started, he went all out with it! He insisted that I buy a good machine (Brother 1500) because I liked it-I did and love it! I am down to 9 machines now because I just had too many-the most recent one, he told me to buy too! I just bought an oak sewing cabinet with his graces and he insisted that since it was bigger than my other cabinet that it should stay upstairs (where I have to sew more) and the other one in the sewing room downstairs! When he decided that I should do machine quilting he took me to look at a frame and I said, "No, I don't think so right now", he wrote the check anyway (from money he made from ebay!) He also graciously let me buy a GO! when I decided it was time!!! And plenty of dies!
Of course, all is fair, I support his hobbies too-and his, like mine, are not cheap! He went to work yesterday and I gave him a check and told him he should get his gun out of layaway and buy some new bullets for it. And, of course, he had to add to it-but I don't really mind!
And, I am going on a fabric shopping spree soon online to hit some of the good sales!
He is a keeper!

Guess I should brag on my hubby too. For one, he never complains or comments on how much I spend on fabric or sewing stuffs. But on the same hand, I don't complain on how much he spends on his fishing stuff. I'd much rather the money go to fishing and sewing stuff than drugs or alcohol. But the greatest brag is about to come.

Because of circumstances that were well out of our control at the time of our wedding, we don't really celebrate our anniversaries. Well, not like everyone else celebrates. But, on our 20th anniversary my hubby truly surprised me beyond speechless.

Hubby is not a flower sending kind of guy. His words, "the damn things just die and look ugly" but he really shocked me. He went to one of my favorite shops, bought 20 fat quarters that looked really nice together. He then took those to our local florist (a quilty friend of mine). She folded the FQ's to look like flowers and put them in an arrangment! It was drop dead gorgeous. I would post a photo but I lost the photos on a hard drive that died.

Yep, I think I'll keep him.

I have the most wonderful sewing room because hubby built it for that reason. I have strategically placed ceiling lights, a pegboard, and a design wall that he was involved with. He always enjoys seeing my projects too. He goes to the golf practice range in the evenings after dinner and I start sewing. Two hours later, he'll return, and see me and grin and say, "Still toiling away on those blocks, huh?"

well my sweetie was divorced for 14 yrs when we married so he's very used to intertaining himself! he's seldom underfoot and if he is it's not for long, in the afternoon when we have coffee I go out and visit with him at the picnic table, if it's Sunday and he's watching something he "invites" me to watch with him for a few minutes over coffee. and as far as what I spend he says" you know if we can afford it or not, I trust you" sure wish we'd have hooked up before I spent 22 yrs in hell! well better late than never! :thumbup:

My ex-husband hated when I worked on any of my crafts because he felt like I was ignoring him. He was one of these that constantly needed attention at all times. Even when I had the kids.

My boyfriend loves my quilting hobby. He has made many things for me in my Little Shop in my backyard. And I also took over one of the bedrooms in the house for all my sewing machines. I love woodworking projects just like him. We have built so many things together around the house. I also asked for a cabinet to house my fabrics. We ended up building this large cabinet that has over 20 baskets of fabric which I color coded majority of them. It turned out beautiful. I would post a picture but I'm not at home right now, I'm at work. :(

I think we all deserve our ME time and I am so glad that he understands and is right at my side when I decide to do things. Because I am there with him when he choses to hunt, fish and camp. I am so blessed to have found this person. I think he's a keeper. :thumbup:

I can't pass this post w/out adding my brag on my DH:) He definitely supports my habit (in more ways than one) He has even learned to use the Gammill, bless his heart. His 1st quilting was a lap for his mom, who has since passed, his 2nd his dad. He was very proud of both, as he should be.
He is usually very quiet & not outgoing at all - yet when traveling he not only stops at (nearly) every LQS in the area, but talks w/the owners & clerks letting me browse as long as I want. After 41 yrs, he is a keeper! :thumbup: And that is the understatement of the year!!

I'm very fortunate to have a hubby that loves what I do. He teases me in jest that one day he'll find me in an avalanche of fabric yelling for help.. lol

We re-did the old existing sewing room as it was my late mother-in-laws sewing room. I picked up quilting shortly after she passed away. I often think shes my lil angel whispering ideas in my head.lol....I bet in heaven shes still quilting up a storm... !! Now mind you, Ive never sewed a button on before let alone run a sewing machine. But I woke up one morning and decided I wanted to make a quilt. So there I was 4 in the morning asking permission from hubby to use his moms things.. He thought I was crazy given the time of day, but told me to go have fun. That was almost two years ago. My dSIL, was mad, mad, mad that I was using her mothers stuff, it was no secret however, (even most of moms sisters thought it was great and how mom would of loved to teach me) she decided to put an end to it. She came storming in and stripped the room completely clean, removed wood shelving on the walls and everything. She took it all..Good news tho, was it was a clean slate to make this once guest room/sewing room into, my home inside my home- now aka "Moms Quilt maker room" as my lil girl calls it today..lol .. Whoo Hoo ! Hubby went to work and made me my desk, my ironing tables- have 3 of them lol! He made me A nice sized 30x 50 cutting table and found three bookcases for my fabric bolts & stash on three of the walls.. It was an expensive month as I had nothing- no machine-no fabric-no notions...and yet there were no complaints from him.. When we travel he make detours so that I can hit fabric stores along the way.. When I come out empty handed, which very rarely happens, hes disappointed and sys well maybe the next one you'll find something..Last year he surprised me with a GO! for my birthday with tons of dies.. I think to date hes gotten me all but a handful for birthdays & holiday gifts.

I love my room, I love that he loves that I love my room.. I often hide in there, not for any reason other than Ive got a quilt idea in my head and I wanna get it going. No complaints on the days when I forgot all about making dinner.. He waits patiently till I emerge.. We have our cuddle time in the eves, watching recorded shows but when they are over I head back in my room.. He smiles and tells me... "Mom would be so proud !"

As I read all these wonderful things, I continue to be thankful for my wonderful man! He is a stamp collector and I go to many stamp shows all over the US. We track all the quilt shops in the towns we go through. I have the big quilt travel guide. We are leaving for Little Rock tomorrow and he tells me to give us an extra day of travel time for the quilt shops. He bought my Janome 6600 for Christmas when they first came out and hid it for 3 months in his stamp cabinet! He loves to go to quilt shops and visit with the ladies and if they offer him coffee, they have a friend forever!

You DO have one great DH! :thumbup: But too bad your DSIL won't see her mom in heaven!! :thumbdown:

In every family I think you have a saver and a spender. My hubby is a spender he went with me to the fabric store and I saw something that was out of my price range he offer to buy it for me. But it would have may it very tight at the end of the mouth. So I have to put my foot down and say no thank you. He will builds any I ask him to. An believe me his honey to do list is long.

I too, have a DH, but he stills has his moments. At the moment I am lucky enough that he is gone during the week, so I can quilt/sew as much as I like. That way when he is home on the weekends, we spend time together doing other stuff. So it's been working.
Now, as of this past Saturday, the house has sold, so we've been looking for a "our" new house with a quilting room, but to also include a garage with a small shop area.
He really doesn't have a hobby, but I am working on that. He was married to his late wife for 29 years, and she did some crocket and cross-stitch. But these were things that she could sit in the livingroom while he watches TV. I can't just sit and watch TV, so I go down to my room and design and create quilts and clothes. And my room also includes a TV, VCR and DVD. So on occassion he'll join me while I sew.
He likes the results, special when I make him a new western shirt. So there is always room for some give and take. We've been married 3 years now and I think he has started thinkin about making sure the new house has that special room........or it would be a disaster in the dining or livingroom and possibly the garage. Anyway as life goes on, I still have time for some training...............

My DH is very supportive of my quilting also. He is a graphics professional and gives me some very good advice. He will be taking pictures for me for this board in the IRR III that I am doing.

Like many others, my DH is very supportive of my sewing and quilting also. If it weren't for his woodworking skills, I would still be sewing on an old retro kitchen table, with all my fabric in cardboard boxes. This winter we are planning a kitchen remodel, so that means, with a lot of help from DH & DSs, a few of the old cabinets will make their way to my sewing room! Two new rooms for the price of one!!! Yay!

WE ARE A LUCKY BUNCH AREN'T WE!?

ABSOLUTELY !!!!

I agree too!

That would get me so frustrated I wouldn't enjoy his company at all and he would know it.

Rapture,

You got me so tickled with the "Big Boy Britches". LOL

He loves to work outside, so that helps in the summer. The winter time is really the worst. He will drive you bananas if he can't go outside to work. He doesn't read, doesn't like watching TV or movies unless I am sitting with him, and really and truly has no hobby at all. I understand about the negative comments. Mine does the same thing. It is like they know they are being mean, but do it any way. And mine will never say he is sorry.

Now on the other hand, I know he will do just about anything for me and he told my mom that I am his angel. Go figure. :)

Vanessa

I say teach him to quilt! He might love it and it'd be something you guys can do together!!!

Hubby had a 3 day weekend last week-I had the usual 2. He totally cleaned the kitchen, cleand the pot shelves and everything on them, my knook of shelves in the hall and all the junk on them, cleaned the pond, pulled some weeds, fixed the water line and did I mention he cleaned every window inside and out?! I mopped the floors and sewed both days. Life is great!

I broke mine in from day one. "You want breakfast?" Let me show you where the kitchen is. "You want to eat lunch?" Do you not remember where the kitchen is? lol

No, seriously - Pat had issues with me knitting when we were first married and his argument was "you are paying attention to your knitting - not me." Actuall, I was knitting, watching TV, and carrying on a conversation while not letting dinner burn. So I stopped knitting and became the most attentive B**** you can imagine. After a few days he begged me to knit again.

Now he has his own hobby (Astronomy) but more times than none he will sit with me in the sewing room for company.

My Husband and I are both retired. But he had been retired a while when we got married He retired at 43 and his first wife died 42 days after they both retired. So he was use to being by himself when we got married. I was still working and he kept on me to retire so I did. He has lots of hobbies hunting,fishing,golf,and reading. but he watches T.V. the rest of the time every thing on the Civil War he can find. I didn't have a hobby but decided I wanted to quilt borrowed a machine from my SIL and the he bought me one for Christmas. Then I decided I wanted an Embroidery Machine he got me one, them I just had to have a serger he got me that for Christmas. Redid the dining room to make me a sewing room and the rest is History. But it does bother him when I don't spend some time with him so I am working on that. All in All he is a great catch and I wouldn't trade him for anyone else for any amount.

My hubby is not handy, and is the first one to remind me of that - but has never complained about the money spent on my hobby, and will gladly tag along to Menards when I want to build something for myself. He looks at tools for his tractors, while I wander through wood/paint/flooring/whatever.

My hubby is the best, he has made me a big board ironing board, he put up peg board in my sr and now putting shelves up. He helps me with my machines when they go haywire, he always fixes them for me. He will wait patiently in the car when I see a quilt shop I just need to visit,he never complains about how much I spend. This would of been the week for him to do it! We were on vacation and I did spend!!! Yep, the best he is, but I wish he would get a hobby especially for the winter.