My granddaughter, aged 14, asked to start a quilt, we went shopping--always the best part--and she chose her fabric and coordinates. she had picked out a pattern in a magazine and we went from there. I cut the 10 inch blocks and she arranged them how she wanted them, we put sticky notes with numbers on them, so she didn't get lost when sewing, and then we moved to the machine to learn to thread, sew a seam and away she went. We bought the fabric on Sat, cut the fabric on Sun, and she sewed two rows on Monday--her goal, to share her quilt top or part of it, with her new found friends in my quilt guild who we had gone shop hopping with on Saturday. it is an easy pattern, and distinctly hers, as she chose the fabrics.