Men in LQS
06-20-2011, 09:22 AM
#42
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Owasso, OK
Posts: 414
My DH is really good when we travel about asking if I need to stop in a quilt shop in an upcoming town. If we do stop, he finds a shade tree to park under while I shop. Invariably, I will look up after 15 or 20 minutes and he is walking in asking me if they have a bathroom!!!!
06-20-2011, 10:57 AM
#44
Super Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Frederick, OK
Posts: 2,031
When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it might be about men who WORK in a LQS. (LOL) My wife and I don’t have any employees, so I work in our little shop off and on. Instead of a LQS, our shop could probably fall under the heading of a Fabric and Sewing General Store.
The ladies get a kick out of seeing me at one of our machines mending or hemming jeans or putting a zipper in a coat when they come in. Most of them comment to my wife about putting me to work. My wife always tells them that she finally “found some help, not much help, but cheap help”.
When my wife has an appointment somewhere and needs to be gone, I work the shop in her place cutting fabric, cutting fat quarters, cutting lace, cutting ribbon or trim, cutting elastic, cutting batting and whatever else the customers want. Five years ago when I first started and had a request for something that I wasn’t real familiar with (and had THAT look on my face), most of the ladies took me under their wing and helped me find it and/or get it for them. Now I’ve graduated up to helping decide which 5 fabrics go best together, and some ladies even insist that I give them my opinion when I’m available.
We have men come in the shop all of the time. A few of them are quilters, and some are farmers. Did you know that a piece of leather treadle sewing machine belt can be used as a substitute for a grease seal in an antique hay rake wheel hub? Or that 1/8” foam sheeting makes a good air conditioner filter cover for a Ford tractor?
CD in Oklahoma
The ladies get a kick out of seeing me at one of our machines mending or hemming jeans or putting a zipper in a coat when they come in. Most of them comment to my wife about putting me to work. My wife always tells them that she finally “found some help, not much help, but cheap help”.
When my wife has an appointment somewhere and needs to be gone, I work the shop in her place cutting fabric, cutting fat quarters, cutting lace, cutting ribbon or trim, cutting elastic, cutting batting and whatever else the customers want. Five years ago when I first started and had a request for something that I wasn’t real familiar with (and had THAT look on my face), most of the ladies took me under their wing and helped me find it and/or get it for them. Now I’ve graduated up to helping decide which 5 fabrics go best together, and some ladies even insist that I give them my opinion when I’m available.
We have men come in the shop all of the time. A few of them are quilters, and some are farmers. Did you know that a piece of leather treadle sewing machine belt can be used as a substitute for a grease seal in an antique hay rake wheel hub? Or that 1/8” foam sheeting makes a good air conditioner filter cover for a Ford tractor?
CD in Oklahoma
06-20-2011, 11:37 AM
#46
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Long Island
Posts: 125
Reminds me of when I was in the supermarket and I ran into a friend on the Deli line who asked how my quilting was going. I guess my mind was on fabric when it was my turn. The clerk asked me "how much cheese" and I said 1/2 yard. Everone got a good laugh.
06-20-2011, 12:13 PM
#50
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Northern Indiana
Posts: 2,680
Mine has no problem going into LQS or JoAnns. One time when I had been grousing about a problem I was having with a quilt while we were in JoAnns, he wandered off. I didn't think anything of it until he comes back with some lady he had started talking to about my problem. It's funny now, but at the time I was a little bit embarrased :oops:
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