A Well-Trained Husband
 

I was showing my husband my latest quilt top and he 1) looked interested and 2) said "your points look great". Lol. I have taught him well. it's nearly as automatic as his reply to "Do these jeans make me look fat?" haha.

My husband is also very good at completing my quilts.

But it goes both ways, when he wants me to look over what he's been doing - "That plumbing looks really good" or " You did a great job running those wires" - when I really don't know what I'm looking at . . .

Great job!! My husband always puts his hands on his chest and says " Oh my gosh girl.. my heart can't take it!" I'd say he's semi-trained... would like to see him do backflips ya know?! LOL

That's a perfect response. Mine is still in training. He looks at a quilt and goes, Hmmmm. I don't like that fabric. Pointing out one fabric. As if I would rip it out and replace it after the quilt is done. He also likes the backs better. So now when I show him something, I go, Isn't this great? To give him a clue as to how to respond.

For years my husband would only respond "it's lovely!" Then he started asking why I asked him if I was going to go ahead and do what I wanted anyway, and I replied sometimes I did take his advice (which is true).

It was an amazing thing yesterday though I was laying out the very simple quilt I'm working on and he participated with me. He has a hard time appreciating most of what I do from an art sense, he is very controlled and doesn't "get" scraps but he can appreciate what I called planned quilts better. He would have liked it better if the star blocks I was making had the same order of fabrics and the blocks were placed in the same direction. So we talked about this particular project and why I'm making the design decisions that I am, but that his way was valid too.

We have similar issues between us in garden styles, I'm the loose overgrown cottage garden type, and he's the neat precise knot garden with everything clipped and forced into geometric shapes.

My DH and I used to make quilts together. He would say of a mistake that couldn't be fixed, "Hey, it's folk art!"

My husband used to send me back to buy more fabric. He said an artist needs her palette.

My DH just learned what a FQ is so I am trying to teach him one day at a time!! :)

My first thought, ‘hey, my kind of guy’ or too be so lucky’. But then I realized I have the right kind of guy. Someone has to have control! 😉🤣🤣🤣

I rarely show my DH my quilts or projects I'm working on. I never think to show them to anyone. I have never wanted opinions or feedback unless I ask for it or it's a safety concern, especially with my quilts. My daughter will see the fabrics I'm using and say I don't like those colors at all but when the quilt is finished she claims it or tries to. LOL

Funny thread!
My husband likes everything I make. How can that be? Well, he finally told me he didn't like one. My BH mystery quilt. We both hate it and I doubt any of our boys will like it either. lol
Ever since our baby granddaughter was born we're both so over the moon that I buy tons of fabric to make her things. He's not one to say anything about purchases but Arden has made him completely uncaring of expenditures haha
I need to reign it in though. I've bought so much. Can you tell she's our first? :)

My husband is awesome. He knows and understands the lingo - we were at a quilt show and he pointed at one quilt and told me it would have been even more awesome if the quilter had trapunto'd certain parts of the quilt. And he was right. He teased me for using cheater panels in a quilt. And he bought me a 26" Innova on a 12' frame for Christmas. I don't think he's "trained", per se, I think he makes what is important to me, important to him. That's the best kind of husband. <3

Trained? https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...s/confused.png

I guess I never realized that men knew so little about quilting. My mother was a quilter, as is my wife. A year and a half ago, with her failing eye site, I started helping her with some aspects of her quilting. Decided to give it a try. I've now made about 10 quilts and have purchased my own Juki, plus I have my grandmothers 1937 cabinet Singer.

Jim

Good job on the husband training. Mine rarely says much about my quilts except "That's pretty" or something similarly neutral. lol. He knows how to stay out of trouble!

Mine will tell me if he likes it or not, (in a nice way) and sometimes make some suggestion, (in a nice way) when I show him the quilt I happen to be working on. He has gone to quilt shows with me and to the fabric store with me, and never complained about how long it can take to find just the right piece of material. Actually, one time not too long after I had just started quilting, he was with me at the fabric store and I couldn't figure out which color would look the best for the border. I hadn't noticed he had walked off until he came back with a couple of other ladies who were there shopping. They were real nice about it, and made a couple of suggestions that did work:)

I'm sure no disrespect was meant for you or other men quilters. It's a bit like blonde jokes, I'm a blonde [or was :) ] and realize they are just levity.

Mine is great with colors. He will come
with me to buy fabric for a project that has me stumped. I don’t have a stash so unless it is a scrap or scrappy quilt I get new. No complaints about him except he can’t push a chair back under the table!!

No. my comment was not intended to be any kind of gender stereotype. Only to acknowledge the effort he has made to learn about a hobby of mine, which was previously completely foreign to him.

This is how females wives lovingly speak about their male husbands they adore in the presence of other female wives. Nothing mean or downgrading meant by it at all.

My DH becomes very concerned if I am not at my sewing machine in a long while and thinks I am sad or bothered about something as he know how much attention I pay to my quilting. I have to reassure him that I am ok. He loves to see even a single block of my work and goes gaga over finished quilts. He is quick with compliments. He wants them all on our bed and I have to remind him when a quilt is a gift that we can't sleep under "this one" He has already made claim to the one I am making now even though I had planned it as a Christmas gift for his sister. I am the luckiest woman to have such a quilt happy man! He never objects to anything I purchase for my quilting.

That’s fabulous! I taught my dh to quilt a couple years ago when we bought our longarm and he wanted to play with it.

this past week, I was sewing blocks and he wandered in to help. The next day I was putting the rows together and he was pestering so I gave him some to sew together. I wound up grilling dinner and he put the whole rest of the quilt top together!

the next day he put on borders and then long armed it and now he’s doing the binding too! I’m battling tendinitis in my arm and he’s being a huge help!

(today I cut out pieces for next quilt. We shall see how much I actually do....)

My DH is color blind, so I don't know what he is seeing. He'll have interesting comments, like, 'It looks like molecules,' 'it looks like a box of chocolates,' 'it looks like an alien.' If I have a Bonnie Hunter quilt up, he'll say, 'Aaaahhhhh! Busy.' I'll ask his opinion when considering options for something, and then he usually says, 'it depends what you want.'