I also have many projects going at the same time, so it's kind of hard to tell how long this actually took. One thing though that stretched out the time from beginning to end was picking out the first quilting design. It was so horrible, it almost made me cry. It took me a year to pick it out (during lunch at work) and then to work up the courage to take it to someone else to be quilted. It was well worth the wait though -- she did a great job quilting it.