I love to make quilts, you'll love it! Lots of fabrics to choose from, 100% cotton fabrics are best in my experience.
"Quilter's Complete Guide" by Fons and Porter is a great book for beginning quilters. Lots of clear pictures and instructions, I used to teach beginning quilting. It starts off with simple blocks and shows how to make them, everything a new quilter needs to know. I've been quilting for 25 years ,this was one of my first books; I learned from PBS quilting programs also.