WELCOME Briar Rose! This is an excellent site to learn lots of things - quilt related and otherwise. Why just the other day I learned how to enlarge the text on the computer screen. (hold CONTROL and roll the mouse wheel).
Take your time and read around the QB (Quilting Board). No hurry here! ;)
Here's a good link:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-84708-1.htm