Roxanne, I just found your question a page or two back - if you want to start with most others in June, then I advise practising a Heart, Leaf and afterwards a scroll shape. Even if you do two or three of each, until you are comfortable, then you will feel reasonably confident when you actually begin to put them together in your first block.
Kathy, you are going great guns with your centre - I have mine all done, but not put together yet. I am going to applique my borders and need to make more of that. I did some, and realised that I had forgotten to enlarge it to the same scale as my larger (10in) blocks. I think I can use what I have already done on the outside edge so as not to waste it.