Please don't feel bad about your first quilt. Just this morning I was trying to resurrect a Bethlehem Star that I pieced by hand in 1975. I can't get the corner squares and triangle right. Then I looked at the piecing and realized that each seam is a different width, some 1/8 inch up to 5/8. I guess I didn't know about the importance of keeping the seams at least the same. So, I think I will give up on this one. But that was one of my first attempts. Stick with it and you'll learn a lot and get much better at it. I should have had some mentoring back then.