How many hours does it take to make a quilt??????

Did you ever wonder how many hours it takes you to make a quilt?  

I don't want to know for money purposes, since I make quilts to give away.  I am looking at it more as a reality check on my time.  How much time I have to quilt and how long it takes me to make a quilt.  I have a tendency to over commit on my time and under estimate how long I think it takes me to make something.  This usually results in me not completing the quilt and then since I didn't finish it in time, I just leave it as a UFO.   Working full time and volunteering to help with my son's activities doesn't help, but I am hoping to retire someday in the future.

I know a lot of this depends on skill level, how complicated the pattern, how elaborate the quilting, whether it is hand or machine, (mine will be mostly machine), etc...    I guess I am more interested in it from the stash and wish list perspective.  Is my stash so big I will never be able to sew it all in my lifetime or is there hope for me and I can allow myself to buy more if needed?   Is my UFO/wish list so long that I will never be able to make them all (and thus start donating those I don't really love) or is it a manageable size especially once I retire.

I notice some people in different groups I belong to and blogs I read, that seem to be super fast, jet setting quilters and crank out numerous quilts and projects all the time.   I get exhausted just thinking about that.   I know I am not the fastest quilter in the world, but I feel like a complete slow poke when I see what they accomplish.  So I am curious on how many hours does it really take me and how much time do I really have to quilt?  If I had more time, would I be able to get as much done as they do or am I really that much of a slow poke?

So I plan on starting to track this.   I already know I won't be completely accurate, since tracking my time is not my favorite thing to do and I don't want to make this a huge burden.  But I am curious from a time management perspective on what it really takes me to make a quilt and more interested in a ball park estimate.    So the next time I say I am going to make that quilt, I have a better idea on when I will actually have it finished.