African Flower Afghan

I've been working on a new afghan for my bedroom since April.  I've not managed to do as much crochet as I would hope and so progress on my afghan has been slow.  I have though managed to complete 40 hexagons which I sewed together over the weekend.  This is my progress so far.

I didn't work on Friday and I spent most of Friday and Saturday morning stitching the hexagons together.  I've got 4 rows of 10 hexagons which just about spread across the bed.  All of the hexagons are different but I think I've exhausted the different colour pattern combinations with the wool that I have. My initial thoughts were that I would need to crochet enough hexagons to create an afghan that is 10 across and 12 long, so that makes 120 hexagons, plus some half flowers to fill the spaces at the end of the rows.  This means that I am a third of the way through this afghan and its taken me 5 months to get this far.

Looking at what I've hooked and joined together it looks much smaller that the third of the afghan I thought it would be, but the thought of stitching more than 120 hexagons is too daunting.  I've found I've got bored stitching the flower pattern.  Whilst I change the colour combinations around it does change what I stitch and I get bored quite easily.  But I am determined to finish this before Christmas.

What are you working on right now?  Do you have a project that is taking longer than you think?  Have you made an African Flower Afghan?  What was your experience like?