There are times when I'm on a deadline, like the Family Reunion quilts I make every other year, as it has to be done in time to ship and arrive by July 4, although one year all they got was a picture as the quilt didn't arrive until the next day, but they understood. I've even been hand stitching the binding to a quilt which was to be raffled off the next day. We had just spent 2 days getting from NH to NE, I was exhausted, but had to finish the binding, although I apparently kept dosing off, and my niece was trying to capture me on film asleep, although I guess I woke up just before she snapped the picture - that would have been cute. Then I've had years where I was sewing/quilting before I went to work and after I came home, before dinner and after, although I was making items to sell at my church's holiday fair, and it was for a good cause. It also helped keep me sane, although now I have the time to devote more time to quilting, but life keeps getting in the way. Fast or slow, I enjoy the process and when I start getting crabby my DH tells me to go quilt, as I'm happier then.