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(Applique --- Love your quilts.)
DITTO!! Thank you sooo much for posting this message. I too take months to finish one quilt. Though I could be cutting a lap quilt or baby quilt in between working on a queen to break up the monotony of the actual quilting process. |
Machine pieced and quilted baby and/or charity quilts can take a few days. Mostly I hand quilt so a king-size Lone Star quilt took me a year to quilt working fairly steadily. Queen size hand applique, hand quilt took 2 years. The lady who took "Best of Show" in a large area quilt show had a hand applique, hand quilt queen size that took her 10 years.
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Depends on how much extra time I can squeeze out of my work day for me.
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Originally Posted by grammy Dwynn
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mood house work mood what's on TV mood pattern choice mood washing clothes mood errands mood lunch w/friends mood having enough fabric mood shopping for more fabric mood am I quilting it mood time w/grands mood There are just to many variables to say how long. I'm lucky that I have the 'time' to quilt when I want, when life is not getting in the way. But IMHO the biggest variable is mood (you might have noticed, above). ;-) |
my motto to live by is "Quilting forever, housework whenever" so I can get a quilt done in about a month. If it's a really intricate patter (PPing, etc.) it takes a little longer.
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I tend to work on more than one at a time. Sometimes I'll finish the top then move straight on to quilting.. usually I finish a couple tops then quilt them. So I finish more than one quilt in a week, but I've usually been bouncing around between them for weeks or months.
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It takes me months to finish a quilt. I work full time so I can only sew in the evenings and on the weekends. Also during the summer there are other things to do. I am not a fast quilter.
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My time increments are also in months. The longest was 4 months, shortest was 1. I'm retired, but have so many other things going on, I don't have lots of time to sew. I shoot for about 1 hour/day.
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Like others have said, it depends on the pattern. I can make one in 3 days, but then if it is appliqued, it takes me a lot longer because I get bored.
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For me, it really depends on the quilt and my motivation. I have been able to get a baby quilt done in a day, even quilting! Others take me longer. The black and white in my avatar, between piecing and quilting took me the better part of 6 months! But that was the most involved one I have ever undertaken.
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