Welcome, I have been involved with quilting for least 25yrs and still consider myself a pre-beginner. Oh! I've accumulated lots of toys and worn many inexpensive basic sewing machines.. When I started it was the cardboard box template, you traced by hand.. Now, tutorials everywhere and involved with vltr in my guild takes longer than others for me to learn money restraints but still fun and as a vltr I participate and learn free.. Met lots of ladies, and my hands are always in the huge growing tool-book library borrowing books of all sorts.. I love winters where I'm snowed in plugged to my sewing machine front of TV or CD books and sew away..