OMG I'm so happy so many of you find the quilting as tedious as I do. I think that is why when they offer classes for 1st time quilters, they don't teach anything about the actual quilting.
At my LQS when I took my 1st class, I was quite surprised when the class ended and all I had was the quilt top. The shop is located in a rather upscale community. Everyone told me they pay someone to do the machine quilting. When I found out how costly that was, I sat down and thought myself how to machine quilt (with the help of Alex Anderson's show on HGTV). I really miss that show!
I really only get to quilt on the weekends. So it takes a while to finish a quilt top. By the time I'm done I'm bored and ready to start the next one. Needless to say I have several quilt tops and only a few finished quilts.