Google easy free quilt patterns and you will find a lot that will work for you. That's what I did 4 years ago, and I was hooked! Well, I also took a beginning quilting class that my sister taught. Guess that helped a lot too.
And use this board. Every time I ran into a problem, I would post a question and got an immediate answer. For example, I even had a question the first time I changed a blade in my rotary cutter...."Do you wipe off the oil or whatever that is on the blade before you put the new blade in?" and got an immediate answer from fellow quilters here.
The quilt on my avatar is one of the easy free quilt patterns I found when I googled. I think it was the third quilt I made.
Dina