I've also been working on this off and on for months. Keep running out of yarn, or losing the bag with the new yarn in it. The baby it's meant for is now 6 months old and will probably go to college before it's done.
when I started crocheting it was a few months before Christmas. I was making a rainbow shawl and I wanted to gift it to my cousin for Christmas.
I ended up giving it to her on Easter. You're probably thinking "well that's not too bad, only a few months late". It was not that Easter, took more than one year.
In reality it only took me a month of actual work, but I wasn't very consistent with my work :D