Our LQS also does a block of the month, where if you buy the first block and finish it by the next month, they give you the material for the following month. SO if you go every month with a finished block, you end up with 12 blocks for the price of one. If you want you can purchase a finishing kit for whatever size quilt you want to make. This has been a fairly painless way to make quilts. This year for the small finishing kit I paid $70 and the first month was $10. So for $80 (plus quilting around another $70) I'll have a finished quilt.