Originally Posted by
mary123
How long does it usually take you to make a bed-sized quilt?
Know that varies greatly with the pattern, but I am just curious what your
average time would be.
How many quilts did you make in 2013?
Wishing all of you sister quilters a wonderful New Year!!!!
The top: from 8-20 hours for the average one. A "nonaverage" one, maybe up to 60 hours.
Sandwiching average quilt: 1/2 hour-1 hour. I use spray baste and safety pins. I use my dining room table, which is almost 3 yards long and 40" wide. Poly batting.
Quilting: FMQ on my Janome Horizon 7700: between 2-3 hours (simple. smaller) up to 4x that for straight line quilting or large quilt. I haven't gotten into complicated FMQ yet. Time could 4x-10x that if someone is doing dense quilting.
I generally make twin size or larger--sometimes bunk bed sized (not as wide as a regular twin).
How many quilts did you make in 2013?
I FINISHED 104 quilts this year.
Over half of those tops were already made in previous years,
* about 15 of the 104 were donated tops that I just finished, and
* maybe 20-40 from "start to finish"completed in 2013.
It is so hard to know when I start something because sometimes (for example) I put together 9 patches and then put them away til a later time, or sew fabric on adding machine tape to be used in a scrappy quilt, etc.