Revisions feel like they take forever. Now I'm in the middle of my manuscript and I have been deleting most of what I spent a year writing. Now I have a pile of word scraps. Pieces of paragraphs that I am diligently trying to sew together. I will not know what it will look like until it's complete.
Though I have never quilted, but I would imagine you have a vision of what the scraps of cloth will look like once finished. You can't really see it until it rests on your bed.
Wish me luck.
T