My first quilt took me 14 years to finish. It was started before rotary cutters were invented and we had to draw cardboard templates and use scissors to cut the pieces. Then the hand quilting also took a long time, partly because I used cotton/polyester fabric and it was harder to get the needle through. After that, I made one quilt a year for a long time because I was hand quilting. Eventually, I started sending larger quilts out to long armers and machine quilting my own. Such is a quilter's journey. Do what you enjoy and avoid what you don't!