Family Intervention

[Connie R.]

I'm a school teacher, and in my summer months off I just love to make quilts and work uninterrupted on the many projects I have in various stages of completion. Yesterday my grown son called to say that he suggested that he and my husband do an "intervention" for my quilting habit. He thought he was being cute but I didn't think so. I told him he should be proud of the work I do. He says he is, but he really doesn't mean it. I know he doesn't "get it" and neither does my husband really. Fortunately, I'm able to ignore them most of the time.
Barbara

[Alex A.]

I remember once getting an email from a gal who had recently started quilting and was consumed by it - she was seriously concerned about her mental state - FOR REAL - my response was "welcome to the club"

[Alex A.]

I started quilting in my early 40's (I'm 50 now), right about the time my hormones started to get weird. Designing and quilting and fabric and new ideas just flat consume me. I see designs and color combinations everywhere. This obsession has saved my sanity I think. The crazier my hormones get the more I concentrate on the quilts. I think it keeps my family safe from me! DH is all about making one of the now spare bedrooms into a quilting room cuz he knows I need alot of solitude these days. Kids are leaving for college-big change in our lives. Quilting gives me something consistant that I have total control over.

Wow-I wrote an essay...that wasn't the plan, but it got me through another hot flash! :roll:

Sherry

[Jenny C.]

Quilting is by far the nicest and most productive obsessive habit i have Jenny in Oz

[Carla G.]

Don't we all have to have the latest gadget, fabric, thread ,needle.... DEEP BREATH.....

I'm doomed

Carla

[Beth A.]

Wow. Anyone who tries an intervention with a menopausal quilter is either VERY brave or else seriously disturbed!

Don't mess with us!!!

BethMI

[Beth A.]

Even though my wonderful dear husband shakes his head and smiles when he comes to the door of my sewing room, we all know that this room is very necessary for the happiness and safety of our household.

I have to admit that it looks like two different people sew in this room....there's fabric all over the floor and gadgets and thread and many other things that have fallen off the table in these last seven weeks that I've been on a roll....and then there are my two four foot shelves on the wall with my 520 perfectly folded fat quarters in CD boxes that I did a couple of weeks ago when I donated all my fabric except a fat quarter of each.....yes I really did.....I took the quote from William Morris on the Daily Blog to heart: "Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful". I kept all my one yard pieces which I know to be useful and all my hand dyeds which I believe to be beautiful. Now what do you call that? :twisted: Hormonal :twisted: ............ :shock: Crazy :shock: ............ :lol: or just a Happy Quilter :lol: ????? I think it's the third choice... :wink:

Dana in Olive Branch, MS

[Sherry B.]

At least my DH understands. He is the same way about fishing & hunting. We'll be driving down the road and he'll be really quiet, so I think he's stressing about work and I ask, "what are you thinking so hard about?" His answer is something about hunting or fishing So today we are going to Kalispell for a fly fishing conclave and I said I want to stop at Glacier Quilts new store, which is conveniently located next to a huge sporting goods store.
:-)

[Sherry B.]

See my quilt, "Therapy in Session," on My Profile. Says it all! :wink:

[Sherry B.]

Some of you may remember last year I wrote about my friend who told me " we need to find you a real hobby" (for full story look up thread " An age for quilting") All I can say is some people really do not get it. Luckily I have a husband who while he does not share my exact hobby he has a few of his own (woodworking, model trains, marching band/drum corps visual design, etc) so he understands and accepts my periods of temporary insanity and even sometimes has input that is quite good. The marching band visual design has given him a fantatic eye for color and visual movement!! I've had him sewing - he does cross stitch - if only I could get him to cross over to the dark side :twisted:

[Sherry B.]

If this is an illness, mental or otherwise, I don't want the cure. I LOVE what I do. Betty Ann

[Sherry B.]

Yesterday I was at the quilt shop because I ran out of this one fabric that I had gotten there. They were out too. My DH was impressed that I bought nothing. :shock: Later that night he walked out of the local grocery store were they have a ton of magazines and tossed me a new quilt magazine and said "here you go junkie after that shop you probably need a fix" HE SO GETS ME. :P Yep I'm a junkie but there are worse things to be addicted to.

[Sherry B.]

that is great because I no longer talk to my dh about my quilting because we do not see eye to eye on it

[Sherry B.]

Happy my Hubby and I don't see eye to eye on it either but we have an agreement. I say nothing about his boxes of car mags and woodworking mags and he keeps mum about the quilt stuff. I also buy for him when I have the money and he buys for me when he has it. We don't go overboard just enough to get our fix.

[Sherry B.]

Yesterday my DH suggested an outing. He would drop me off at the quilt shop and he'd go to the cemetary. He has an on-line community of geneologists and they help each other with their research. For some reason, they like to have photos of their ancestors' grave markers, so they email eachother and take and send eachother photos.

I really didn't need anything in particular, so I bought some remnants of neutrals (a quilt in Alex's book is in my future!) and a book. He knew I hadn't been to a quilt shop in a while and have been trying to finish projects.

After, we met up and had lunch. Nice guy, don't you think!? PS: he never asked what I bought! Nancy in W. NY