I think what you need is to find someone near you or a quilt guild and get some one on one . They would be glad to get you started and it would be a support group for you". Not all of us are the type to teach ourselves and some require a little bit of guidence to get started. You would be very surprized if you spent just an hour with someone who knows what they are doing. in that short amount of time they would be able to show you how to cut and sew your simple square quilt together . Try and get a rotory cutter and mat along with a ruler and you would be suprized how quickly things will go. I taught myself to quilt years and years ago before such things were avaialble and a girlfriend came to visit later on with a mat, ruler , and rotery cutter. These things changed my lifeeeeeeeee. what used to be soooooooo time consuming suddely was conceivable in a short time span and I was hooked from the very beginning. No one could have talked me out of trying to quilt.