I have a friend who is now in her 80s. She raised five kids, so has a number of grandkids and now a bunch of great-grandkids. She has made every one of them a bed-size quilt. She starts when they are babies. The quilt is to be received by the child at his/her high school graduation. The youngest, who's about 8 or 9 right now, has had his quilt waiting for him since he was four years old. She has enough room to store the quilts for the younger kids in her house until the graduation.