Hello and welcome aboard. I agree with what has been said already. all good advices. That's what I did and there are many web sites that are very helpfull
and here on the board there is plenty of articles
http://www.quiltingboard.com/resources/articles-2/
i spent hours browsing through this one:
http://www.quilterscache.com/
if you go in the middle of the page it says "where do you want to go today" hours of reading to do there
start small, have fun and come back here to tell us about your learning steps!