I'm slow as well. It takes me 3-4 months to do a quilt on my quilting frame.... and that's stitching on it a little every day. But I love to see the completed project.... really love the look of hand quilting. So, I don't hand quilt everything.... it takes too long. I do FMQ as well for the ones that aren't as 'special' to me. Right now I have a quilt on the frame that's been there over a year..... I'm gone every summer to our cabin and can't hand quilt and last winter I broke my arm. So, we just got back to our winter place and I uncovered the quilt to work on it. I've been here since Saturday night and haven't had a chance to stitch.... my 93 year old mom was in the hospital and I had to be by her side for 2 days. This quilt is taking a long time to finish.