Unfortunately, some of what we learn while quilting is when to learn to listen to our hearts and minds and that's the hardest to do over the internet. I work mostly in scrap projects and think I'm willing to use some fabrics other people wouldn't.
So for me, I try to analyze what I am doing because that's the way my mind works. If the scraps are precious reminders of my mother and I don't think my skill set is high enough to do them justice, I put them away until I am ready for them. If they are just a useful object waiting to be used, then I use them up.
If the project I'm working on is a learning project, well -- as I had to say about one of my recent projects, I'll attempt perfection next time! Sometimes we find on a learning project that we learned everything we wanted to know without a final quilt at the end...
Sometimes I am doing some pretty well thought out arty things in my fabrics, other times I'm just slapping them together willy nilly. Typically I sew a bit every day, but I've been in a funk over being in lock down in Seattle and moped around the last couple of weeks, but now I'm sewing partly because it gives me a purpose.
It can be really confusing sometimes with our 1/4" seam allowance on whether our pieces are too big or not -- if it looks right it probably is even if the measurement isn't what you expect. But, if you've got a 1/4" nub sticking out, those would be trimmed off. While other people barely use them, I'm a pinner and pin about every 2", but well down below the foot of the sewing machine.
So I'm big on learning and starting and getting used to that 1/4" seam. Some people do jump right into quilting and get amazing results -- but most of us have to start somewhere and end up somewhere else. Try and keep your corners square and when you are at the size you wanted, trim them all to the same size, even if that means you have to add a log to some. Have fun and take deep breaths.
I have progressive vision issues and think at 60 and 40 years of quilting I only have maybe have only 10 years left. I'm re-learning to knit now without my contacts. It's honestly pretty awful but getting better all the time and I am so impressed with myself that I am doing it -- and that you are learning to quilt too. We do the best with what we have in materials and skills and we get better.