The best advice to get you started is to pick up any of Eleanor Burns pattern books (available online either new or used) to get you going. She invented the idea of “assembly line sewing” and it will start you out organized and help you stay that way. Also a design board of some kind also helps keep you organized, for a long time I just pinned to my drapes until I got a design board made. The last thing I will say is if you get stuck, come here and ask your question. People here are very generous with their time and knowledge. Welcome to our obsession and the quilting board fro Oregon.