My Quilters Guild offers 7 3 hr sessions of beginner classes for any member-new or repeat. I will be teaching it along with a friend and some other members. We will cover fabric selection, rotary cutting, finding that 1/4"seam and tool selection (rulers, etc), basic quilting terms; session 2 will be putting together a rail fence block (nesting seams, getting a 12.5 block, pressing) and introduce handquilting; a session on creating an applique block (we'll cover several methods and ask that they choose one); a block of Sarah's Choice, so that they will do a 1/2 square triangle, a flying geese, fit them together as a pinwheel(and open up that meeting corner seam so it lays flat); a session making and "easy pineapple" to show how a complex looking block is very doable; drunkard's path block (sewing curved seams) and "breaking down blocks" to show all the parts they have learned up to this point; a final session of sashings and borders, preparing to quilt or preparing for the long armer. We typically follow-up a couple of months later with a workshop to help them actually get it all finished/binding. We then encourage that they show their sampler at the next Guild show. We ask that beginners do have working knowledge of their machine and basic sewing skills. We even have many members that are experienced quilters that will "drop in" to either help and mentor or re-take a particular class that they want to polish skills.
I had been a sewer for decades before I took these beginner classes and wanted to learn to quilt. I wholeheartedly recommend anyone take some beginner quilt classes even if they do sew--it was SOOO helpful.