How Long - start to finish - does it take you to make a quilt?
07-28-2011, 01:43 PM
#53
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Several variables here. If I hand piece a top, about a year. By machine the top can take several months. Handquilting takes me three months for a queen. Now the mitigating circumstance is the two preschoolers which means I can only work about one hour a day.
Pre Kids, I could machine piece and hand quilt a queen sized in 6 weeks flat, a baby in a week. That was going full time hours (40 week).
Pre Kids, I could machine piece and hand quilt a queen sized in 6 weeks flat, a baby in a week. That was going full time hours (40 week).
07-28-2011, 05:31 PM
#54
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Without checking my little booklet, I believe my approximate times were as follows:
Lap Quilt with 36 pieces within eight large blocks (set on point) plus borders and binding - 36 hours;
Large T-Shirt Wall Hanging with flying geese, border binding - 66-1/2 Hrs.;
Large T-Shirt Quilt (56x88) close meandoring - 65 Hrs.
Now I will go back and read everyone else's tally to see if I am doing okay or slower than a turtle. lol
Lap Quilt with 36 pieces within eight large blocks (set on point) plus borders and binding - 36 hours;
Large T-Shirt Wall Hanging with flying geese, border binding - 66-1/2 Hrs.;
Large T-Shirt Quilt (56x88) close meandoring - 65 Hrs.
Now I will go back and read everyone else's tally to see if I am doing okay or slower than a turtle. lol
07-28-2011, 05:31 PM
#55
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It takes me a couple of months because I have so much else going on. I have never finished a quilt (other than a baby quilt) in less than two months. These other people must sew hours each day! It takes me several days to quilt on my domestic machine :-D :-D :-D
07-28-2011, 07:53 PM
#56
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Depends on how long I procrastinated on a gift deadline I almost forgot my SIL's b-day last yr. I had to shop/wash/dry/iron/cut/piece/sew wrong/rip out/re-sew/sandwich/quilt/hand bind/wash/dry/pack/Zoomed to PO/ slowly drove home to collapse all in 41 1/2 hours.Finish size was 120x120 It arrived on her b-day. That one is my all time favorite
07-28-2011, 08:23 PM
#58
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Well, let's put it this way- I've been quilting for 15 years now and have only actually completed 3 quilts! lol
But that's primarily because my quilts tend to sit in the closet for VERY long times in between spurts of working on them. And I currently do have two that are at the quilting stage and three others that are in the piecing stage. Also, I do handquilt so that takes some time. The quilt I'm currently working on (full-size)was started about 10 years ago but I've done most of it in the last month and a half or so. I'm hoping to have it finished within the next few months.
So, like everyone else says- it depends on a lot!
But that's primarily because my quilts tend to sit in the closet for VERY long times in between spurts of working on them. And I currently do have two that are at the quilting stage and three others that are in the piecing stage. Also, I do handquilt so that takes some time. The quilt I'm currently working on (full-size)was started about 10 years ago but I've done most of it in the last month and a half or so. I'm hoping to have it finished within the next few months.
So, like everyone else says- it depends on a lot!
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