It took me 15 years to finish the first large quilt I started LOL
I did many quilts in between the beginning and end of that one. I have many quilts in progress at any given time.
Kudos to you for doing hand piecing and hand quilting. I've only done machine piecing until recently I started some hand piecing.
Also, there's nothing wrong with never finishing that first one. I once saw Eleanor Burns on a TV show with her first quilt. She had never finished it! Here is a woman famous in the quilt world with a quilt unfinished from 30 years earlier!