I think they are a good beginner quilt . Just pick a pattern that is fairly straight forward ( not alot of twists) so you can "get" the concept . Once you do .... the sky is the limit. It took me doing one very step by step , as the idea of sewing the strips in a tube and then unsewing ... well I just could not wrap my brain around it. Now it is one of my favorite methods.
It really is just strip piecing!