It shows you how utterly immersive and addictive quilting is, that we are looking at it as something where it's deeply surprising if you stop.
I've had the odd month or so off, but nothing beyond that. Mind you, I've only been quilting for four years, and sometimes I am too ill to do anything much anyway.
A nice story about getting back into quilting: I started quilting largely because of a friend who talked me into it. We live at opposite ends of the country, but she still provided lots of encouragement and practical support. We both have severe ME/CFIDS, by the way, which can throw a spanner in the works big time. Anyway, she hadn't quilted in a while. I discovered Welsh quilting, fell madly in love with it, had a feeling she'd like it too, and sent her a book on the subject. Next thing you know, she had made this fantastic big bedspread quilt as a wedding present for her sister, designing it all herself based on the techniques in the book (Making Welsh Quilts by Jenkins, which I recommend highly). Her sister's wife is Welsh, which made it even more appropriate, and the gift was ready in time for the wedding and hugely appreciated. Then she and her flatmate designed a lovely quilt for a friend of theirs in hospital. Then she started work on a quilt for her flatmate. So the moral of the story is that sometimes you can pull yourself out of a rut by finding a new creative direction to explore.