I am a newbie also and everyone on here is right, it is addictive. I'm working on my first quilt also. It's a small lap size quilt. The pattern is called a Take a Kwik Trip by Two Kwik Quilter. I was told at the store in a neighboring town that I get my fabric from that the designer is local here in eastern NC. It uses 5 fat quarters with an inner and outer boarder and is strip pieced so it went together very fast since it is small. I got the top together in about 5 hours last Thurs while waiting for hurricane Earl to make his appearance which luckily he didn't.