It took me 6 years to make this completely by hand (even the cutting):

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18 years. And it still isn't done.

I started collecting solids in the 80's for an Amish looking Ocean Waves quilt. I'm pretty sure I started it in 1990. Then life got a little crazy with teenagers and a divorce. I finally finished it about 5 years ago. Or so I thought. Then a couple of years ago I found basting in part of the border! A couple of hours later, it was finally complete. But not a new quilt by any means at that point!

I spent a year doing my first ever quilt.

ha! I thought I was slow, taking four months to finish a lap quilt ... I hated that none of the seams matched! THEN I discovered a little thing called "scant" quarter-inch seams ... ...

13 years.

two degrees, 2 machine quilted bed size projects and a baby in the middle.

but it makes me really happy :)

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aileen

A lonestar precut kit that I bought as my first ever quilt project (big mistake) The fabric was stretchy and I could never get the points to meet in the center. So away it went to storage. Just recently pulled it out again and asked for help, got it from an Amish lady I know and it is now a quilt top! I bought it I would say around 1992. I have fabric selected for the backing but not together yet. Hopefully it will be done by early Fall.

Somewhere in the 1970's I made a lone star in orange, gold, yellow, rust prints and plains (husband picked the colors) with unbleached muslin. I found a job, went to work and in the 1980's could afford a a local lady to hand quilt it. It still lies in it's cotton covering waiting for someone to do the binding. The colors clash with everything in the house.

14 yrs & counting! It's all sandwiched ready to quilt, but it's an oversize queen & I can't quilt it on my present machine. I have to wait until I get a new machine with a bigger throat area. Now, DH wants me to design a new quilt for him in a King size!!

My first and nearly only quilt took me 7 years to complete. It is a queen sized lone star that I made from a book I purchased at a fabric shop. It is machine pieced and hand quilted and bound. I had no idea what I was starting in 1992, but finished it in 1999 after learning how to hand quilt by trial and (many) errors. It is on the queen bed in our guest room and I love it. I took the plunge again last October and am quilting again.