Hi there, welcome from the UK!
If you do a search for 'baby quilt' on here you will get tons of results, inspiration galore! I like the idea of brown and pink, they go so well together. There are some easy patterns such as 'Warm Wishes' and 'Disapearing Nine Patch' that are popular with us newbies for baby quilts:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/16030.page
http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/11026.page
easier to do than it looks, here's the one I did too:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/30/11281.page