Thank you to each and every one of you for your responses. It's good to hear that maybe it's not just happening to me. :) I'm just so excited and want to learn too fast I guess.
Hand basting may be very helpful to me as a beginner, just to make sure before I sew it. That's a good idea. Over the last several months, I picked up rotary cutters and a couple different size cutting mats, as well as 2 different size Omni rulers. I have a roomful of gadgets and accessories and now I just need to put them all to use and hopefully end up with quilts. :P
For now, I think I'm going to tuck this particular project gently away and learn more of the basics and then go back to it later on when I know more. I recently picked up fat quarters to make a quilt top using the "turning twenty" pattern that is simple squares/rectangles. I think that's where I'll focus for now. Surely I can do squares accurately!?!?!?. LOL We'll see.