Okay this may sound nutty but the quilt tells you. Some want to be done and on their way, others I swear have me rippin' seams til the cows come home just to stay longer. My son asked me to make him a quilt and the pattern was turning twenty. Finished in less than a week!

My avatar quilt took me years!!!! Actually, I made about 1/2 the blocks and then put it all away because I had guest coming. Then we bought a business and I don't remember what all else happened, but I just didn't get it out, knowing if I did it would be an obsession for me to finish it. So it was about 2 yrs. later that I took it out and finished it. Even then, I used it for awhile before I ever got around to putting the binding on. Unless there's a push to get one finished, I just take my time and ENJOY the journey!!!

Who care how long it takes to make a quit...just enjoy working and creating something beautiful.

I have done a quilt in two weeks....another took 10 years....and I am in the 7th year one one that I am working on now. Depends on quilt, the need, and my mood!!!

It's hard to say. I have been making primarily queen/king quilts. I tie, not machine quilt. Some days, I spend more time then others. On an average I would have to say about 2-3 mths. At times there is something I have to stop and make a lap quilt

I have had some quilts that took me 8 months to finish because I was embroidering them and then quilting them. I also work full time. My double freedom star also took me nearly 8 months without any embroidering because of the amount of work involved and just how much time a person has to quilt. Don't be discouraged... everybody works at different rates and has different amounts of time to work on their quilts. Some people in my sewing group thought I was quick - I wasn't, I may have had more time to work on them than they did - that's all.

Depends on the kind of quilt I am making. If a baby quilt which I make a lot of and embroider the blocks when at the lake, then when I want to put it together I can sew it together in a half a day ,put it on the frame and hand quilt it and bind it in a day and half.
In Jan. I did a quilt for a client and it took me two half months to make a triple kings size Irish chain, from cutting out fabric to hand quilting and binding it.

Well, let's see.

Wash, dry fabric

iron-well it will sit in the basket for a week or two before I get around to ironing,

then I start cutting, oh-look at that color wouldn't that go good with this other project I'm working one. a couple days before I get back to finishing cutting.

Piecing-going good-until I have a pile of crumbs that I start sewing together, so a couple days later get back to piecing my top.

Then get bored with the pattern and start something else, oh, I really should work on that..

So for me it can take about 4 months to actually finish a twin size top. I get distracted easily-but hey when I'm in a finishing mood I can finish 5-8 in a week.

Oh, to actually quilt it, add another month I get discouraged quickly. Or I send it out to a long armer.

It takes me ahiwl to make a quilt as well. There are many variables involved: how many projects I have going on at the same time how many pieces I have to piece together for a block, what other things are going on at home, whether I have to go and chase the dog (got out again). Life gets in the way, even simple quilts might take me a long time to finish just because....

I don't know, It depends on how many sidetrack projects I get to working on. some have taken me years to make. since I hand quilt, I guess the least amount of time has been several weeks.

As long as it takes.. I have just finished a king sized double sided quilt for my younger daughter which I started in March. Not yet conquered posting photos (but I will get there)....

It really depends on so many things, some I have made in 2 or 3 days, some 2 or 3 weeks, or longer. I work several hours every day.

Several variables here. If I hand piece a top, about a year. By machine the top can take several months. Handquilting takes me three months for a queen. Now the mitigating circumstance is the two preschoolers which means I can only work about one hour a day.

Pre Kids, I could machine piece and hand quilt a queen sized in 6 weeks flat, a baby in a week. That was going full time hours (40 week).

Without checking my little booklet, I believe my approximate times were as follows:

Lap Quilt with 36 pieces within eight large blocks (set on point) plus borders and binding - 36 hours;

Large T-Shirt Wall Hanging with flying geese, border binding - 66-1/2 Hrs.;

Large T-Shirt Quilt (56x88) close meandoring - 65 Hrs.

Now I will go back and read everyone else's tally to see if I am doing okay or slower than a turtle. lol

It takes me a couple of months because I have so much else going on. I have never finished a quilt (other than a baby quilt) in less than two months. These other people must sew hours each day! It takes me several days to quilt on my domestic machine :-D :-D :-D

Depends on how long I procrastinated on a gift deadline I almost forgot my SIL's b-day last yr. I had to shop/wash/dry/iron/cut/piece/sew wrong/rip out/re-sew/sandwich/quilt/hand bind/wash/dry/pack/Zoomed to PO/ slowly drove home to collapse all in 41 1/2 hours.Finish size was 120x120 It arrived on her b-day. That one is my all time favorite

Depends on the quilt abd breaks I take Lol!!

Well, let's put it this way- I've been quilting for 15 years now and have only actually completed 3 quilts! lol
But that's primarily because my quilts tend to sit in the closet for VERY long times in between spurts of working on them. And I currently do have two that are at the quilting stage and three others that are in the piecing stage. Also, I do handquilt so that takes some time. The quilt I'm currently working on (full-size)was started about 10 years ago but I've done most of it in the last month and a half or so. I'm hoping to have it finished within the next few months.

So, like everyone else says- it depends on a lot!

A year, or two, or three....it's the quilting part that takes me forever. rotflol

Kat

I am starting a Baby Bricks tomorrow and it must be done by next Saturday. Let's hope I make it. :D