Originally Posted by
winia
Thank you for doing that. Now I won't feel let down when I don't live up to the "Simple quilt. You can make this in an afternoon" exaggerations I hear all the time from not only quilt pattern makers, but video instructions on You Tube.
Those quilt in a day references are never accurate. They really just mean "Top in a Day - maybe". I have a few patterns where I can make (cut and piece squares and assemble) a top in 8 hours, but not a lot of patterns are that easy to assemble. The only time I can make a "quilt" in a day - cut, piece, assemble, quilt, and bind - is when I do a mini quilt. And sometimes even those are too detailed to do in a day.