I think it would depend on several things, such as how large the quilt is, how much quilting needs to be done on it, etc. I don't hand quilt so don't have a clue how long it takes to do one. Do you have an idea of how much time it takes to hand quilt various sizes with rather simple quilting? A lot of it will depend on how much you feel your time is worth in it. I think it'd be really neat though to work on quilting a top from the past like that.