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Sounds like you want to start out with just a basic patch quilt- as described above - how you put it together is all up to you- for a first time you might want to do the "birthing" method - put top and backing right sides together - place batting sew most the way around leave an opening to pull the quilt right side out then you can straight stitch to do the quilting on the top