So much depends on your comfort with sewing in the first place. If you are interested in "quilting" which is the process of linking three layers of fabric together with stitches. I suggest you purchase a small printed panel or a yard of preprinted fabric that looks like a patchwork quilt and practice on it. Either machine or hand quilting which ever you believe you will be doing. It is not a "quilt" until the layers are assembled and stitched. There are pre marked for quilting, kits etc. out there. I have both a queen size and a probably three foot by three foot white on white quilt done. Both are what quilts where until the American settlers started using up their scraps and leftover fabrics out of sheer necessity not to waste the expensive fabrics they had to purchase before fabric was made in America. I often purchase a preprinted, to look like a quilt length of fabric, add a couple of plain borders and quilt the heck out of it. Anyone who is not themselves a "quilter" and even some who are can not tell the difference. Since I can afford to purchase most any fabric I want I don't bother with sewing together a bunch of scraps unless I absolutely have or want to. I make up to 21 Project Linus quilts a month. Most of them are just printed panels or child friendly print fabrics that I layer with batting and a flannel back and machine quilt very simply. I use a decorative stitch and quilt every four inches or so and around the out side about a half an inch in to create a false border. I make those envelope style which means I sew them right sides together and turn them like a pillowcase before I do the machine quilting. It is now a quilt as it was quilted. I have never been interested in cutting up fabric into small pieces just to sew them back together again. When I first started quilting about 40 years ago I did piece blocks and sew them together into a quilt top. I soon learned that I hated having to "quilt" through all of those seams, and I hated getting the piecing to come out perfect enough to allow me to put it together and have it look like something. My object has always been to "get it done" and start using it. I hope you find the method that best fits your needs and is the most enjoyable method for you.