I highly recommend you watch Leah Days videos on her website: daystyledesigns .com. She's come up with over 350 designs. She also has lots of tips to share that work for her and might for you too. Drawing your design first on paper or a dry erase board before ever touching your sewing machine is the best way to start learning this process. Then make up a FQ or 1/2 yard practice sandwich w/ solid or nearly solid fabric and practice, practice, practice.