I've been quilting 10 years and can you believe, I have yet to finish the quilt I made in my first class sessions. It's very rustic and not my type of quilt. Since I hand quilt, I felt very discouraged to think about the time it would take me to hand quilt a standard size quilt. One lady at the quilt shop says, "Why not quilt it with pearl cotton and do big stitches?" As a novice, that certainly made since BUT I have found it is taking me forever to hand quilt it this way. The main problem I have is that I can't get several stitches on my needle at a time. thus, I do one stitch at a time and unfortunately, I decided for the background to do a 1" grid throughout the entire quilt. Maybe someday I may have a great, great, great granddaughter who will want to finish the blasted thing. It's my never-ending WIP.