Ruth, tring is the important part, my 1 few attempts were beyond discription, but as you go you improve and learn. Keep it up, and something that helped me in the eairly stages was just studing the blocks and breaking them down in my head into sections, most of the basic tradtional blocks break sown into 1/4 sections. With rotary cutters came strip quilting and the "quick" methods. But to begain I feel that working with the old patterns and learning to see how the big blocks are really small sections put together really helped me. I can anilise a block quickly and decide if I want to do it or not, and am much less afraid of the more complex stuff.