I have made seven quilts since April this year and the first one was the Diamond Pineapple. Most of them are large quilts and the smallest being 86x86.
It's true that I am retired and my DH does all the house work and laundry. I just cook and do the shopping and I sew all day if the mood dictates to me to do so lol.
I sew very fast as I have sewed since childhood and there is nothing that I can't figure out and sew up. I only sew fast from experience, I can't help it but I enjoy every minute of my quilting from the cutting to the binding.
I only make quilts that I enjoy making, no special orders etc. I found that it pleases me to not have UFO's anymore. When I start the quilt, I finish it before I start another one but of course, I could work on two at a time and they get finished too.
I have finished most UFO's, there were only a couple or so. I think I found one in my trunk that I completely forgot about and I think there is a beginning of two from the time I took classes and lost interest. I still might finish those tho. One is called, The Winners Circle and came with nice templates and the other is Grandmother's Flower Garden and those are from 1996 lol.
I don't think I every made 50 quilts a year. In fact, my entire collection is in my quilt and doll room all rolled up on tubes. Let me go count them lol,hang on. Ok, I counted 40 and then I think about 10 are in other people's collections. Now, that is from 1996, when I seriously started to quilt and that is 17 years to make all these quilts. A lot of them are king size and the smallest is the size of the bug quilt, remember that one with the bug jars and then the on with the bugs on top? I love those and made one of each one.
Oh wait I do have another 10 needed to get binding so I do have UFO's still hahahahahahha, so that is, lets say, 60 quilts more or less.
Maybe the 50 quilts that the ladies make in a year are baby or lap quilts.