When You Bite Off More Than You Can Chew....

I Have really been wanting to make a big quilt but I had questions on the way I wanted to do it. It made sense to me to do a mini wall hanging to see if the way I wanted to construct it would work. I have only put a few minutes into it each day and it is nice to have a project that is almost complete. I have resolved to reason that the large quilt will likely take a year! How do those quilters do it???