This is what I teach in my Beginning Piecing Workshop: rotary cutting, sewing accurate 1/4” seams, quilting tools, thread, machine set-up, pressing, 4-patch, half-square-triangles, sparrow block, “twist and shout,” snowball corners, flying geese, square-in-a-square, matching points and diagonal corners, squaring-up, chain piecing, block construction, “needle down and stomp your foot,” “steering with the pin,” and borders. But we take 5 weeks to do it, and machine quilting and binding are separate classes.
Maybe a Friendship Star hot pad would be more appropriate. That may take more than 3 hours, though.