Welcome, Sweetpea13, you have come to the right place. My best advice is to pick a simple quilt pattern (you can do that online....just google beginning quilt patterns, that is what I did), buy some fabric (a rotary cutter, a few quilting rulers and cutting board at Wal-Mart too), and just start.
That is sort of what I did 2 years ago. Oh, I also joined a quilting guild and took a learn to quilt workshop. That helped a lot...but what I was going to say is that you can ask any question here and get an answer immediately.
For example, I bought the rotary cutter and could not figure out how to load it...I didn't know if I should leave the oily stuff on the new blade (when I was changing blades. Mine came with a blade in it, as I suspect most do. I just hopped on this site and had an immediate answer. I also asked if I should leave selvage on fabric...another immediate answer.
Just go for it. This site is better than a quilter sitting beside you telling you how to do something.