How Long - start to finish - does it take you to make a quilt?

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07-28-2011, 05:07 AM

#31

onthemove

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(Applique --- Love your quilts.)

DITTO!!
Thank you sooo much for posting this message. I too take months to finish one quilt. Though I could be cutting a lap quilt or baby quilt in between working on a queen to break up the monotony of the actual quilting process.

07-28-2011, 05:16 AM

#32

redeagle

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Machine pieced and quilted baby and/or charity quilts can take a few days. Mostly I hand quilt so a king-size Lone Star quilt took me a year to quilt working fairly steadily. Queen size hand applique, hand quilt took 2 years. The lady who took "Best of Show" in a large area quilt show had a hand applique, hand quilt queen size that took her 10 years.

07-28-2011, 05:24 AM

#33

loves_2_quilt

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Depends on how much extra time I can squeeze out of my work day for me.

07-28-2011, 05:35 AM

#34

patdesign

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Quote:

Originally Posted by grammy Dwynn

DEPENDS on ~
mood
house work
mood
what's on TV
mood
pattern choice
mood
washing clothes
mood
errands
mood
lunch w/friends
mood
having enough fabric
mood
shopping for more fabric
mood
am I quilting it
mood
time w/grands
mood

There are just to many variables to say how long. I'm lucky that I have the 'time' to quilt when I want, when life is not getting in the way. But IMHO the biggest variable is mood (you might have noticed, above).
;-)

O K just have to add, for me it depends on all the aches and pains I woke up with that day! :lol:

07-28-2011, 05:36 AM

#35

sidmona

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my motto to live by is "Quilting forever, housework whenever" so I can get a quilt done in about a month. If it's a really intricate patter (PPing, etc.) it takes a little longer.

07-28-2011, 05:48 AM

#36

shnnn

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I tend to work on more than one at a time. Sometimes I'll finish the top then move straight on to quilting.. usually I finish a couple tops then quilt them. So I finish more than one quilt in a week, but I've usually been bouncing around between them for weeks or months.

07-28-2011, 05:48 AM

#37

mhansen6

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It takes me months to finish a quilt. I work full time so I can only sew in the evenings and on the weekends. Also during the summer there are other things to do. I am not a fast quilter.

07-28-2011, 05:52 AM

#38

PaperPrincess

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My time increments are also in months. The longest was 4 months, shortest was 1. I'm retired, but have so many other things going on, I don't have lots of time to sew. I shoot for about 1 hour/day.

07-28-2011, 05:56 AM

#39

sewnsewer2

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Like others have said, it depends on the pattern. I can make one in 3 days, but then if it is appliqued, it takes me a lot longer because I get bored.

07-28-2011, 05:57 AM

#40

Tudey

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For me, it really depends on the quilt and my motivation. I have been able to get a baby quilt done in a day, even quilting! Others take me longer. The black and white in my avatar, between piecing and quilting took me the better part of 6 months! But that was the most involved one I have ever undertaken.