I am lucky, my DH does understand the time that goes into a quilt and because I mostly hand quilt he has heard me say often enough 6-12 months to complete a quilt. So when he asked me he was well within the 6 month window. Actually the timing worked out well, because now I am in the process of putting the path between my flowers and it is nice to have a couple of different things to work on at once. My flowers are 1 1/2 inch hexis and now that I am adding the path it is too large to be a carry along project. So I bring my granddaughters with that I just started and am currently basting the fabric to the templates and using 1" hexis.