OK I may be misinterpreting your post but it seems you are being overly defensive here. I really don't think anyone is insulting anyone elses abilities or trying to destroy a new quilter's budding enthusiasm for the art. Posters to this thread are merely trying to offer explanations to the OP on how people can complete many quilts in a short period of time. It all boils down to complexity of the quilt in both construction and quilting.
Yes they are all quilts. By that example I can say that a Lamborghini and a Toyota Camry are both cars, yet a Laborghini requires approximately 150 manufacturing hours to build while a Toyota Camry takes about 20. They are vastly different things while still falling under the same broad category of "automobile". Really there is no comparison between the two even though they are both cars.
Same goes for quilts. We are not all capable of putting out the complexity of quilts that say Sharon Schambers does and I can pretty much guarantee that she is not churning out 50+ a year. I think the posts you took as insulting were trying to make this comparison, although some did not do it quite so eloquently and maybe had difficulty putting their thoughts into the written word. The "who'd want to see them anyway" post, yes it was harshly worded but I really think she was meaning in a juried show which IMHO is a whole different quilting animal with subspecies within that group, art quilt, bed quilt, wall hanging, machine quilted, hand quilted, pieced, applique, rookie, just look at any show how many categories there are to enter!
Comparing the time it takes to execute a juried show quilt of Sharon Schambers caliber to the time it takes to execute a 4 patch with a twist quilted with a panto is like comparing Lamborghinis and Camrys. Yes they are both cars, both functional, fun and even pretty, but vastly different in design, complexity, intent and execution (the time it takes to complete).
All quilts are by definition quilts but lets be realistic, just like there are massive differences in fruits, mammals, cars, just about everything, there are vast differences in quilts too. So there is absolutely no reason to feel insulted or defensive that you are churning out many quilts a year or only one because they are basically different species in the same genus and that is a good thing. So unknot those knickers. Life is good!
