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Sampler blocks are always a great way to try new techniques and get confident with sewing your quilt tops. There are some excellent bloggers out there that can show you some fun and easy quilts to make that won't take much time. I recommend you peek at free patterns found at Jordan Fabric's video tutorials
https://jordanfabrics.com/pages/videos-tutorials, or the Quilted Twins
https://www.quiltedtwins.com/free-patterns.htm. A great site for more sometimes complicated free quilt patterns is
https://quiltville.blogspot.com/p/free-patterns.html.
If you are looking for free block patterns just type in "free quilt block patterns" in your search engine and you'll find a ton of sites. This is a good one:
https://www.quilterscache.com/QuiltBlocksGalore.html
My favorite block for beginners because it has few corners to match up perfectly and it always looks good is a churn dash block. There are tons of sites online and videos on how to make it.
We love to help. We love to see what you make. Welcome to the board. Tons of great tutorials in here, too.