I love a single irish chain, it's easy to work with and you can quilt it in a fun way in the larger squares. The french braid quilt looks difficult but it goes together pretty easily. Or you could just do a completely scrappy square quilt.

Turning twenty was my first quilt and I still love it to this day. Turned out really nice, if I must say so myself. LOL

There are so many free patterns and sites to look at and many here as well will help you find whatever you are looking for or want to do. I have been helped a few times and new to all this too.

I guess it all depends on what YOU want. Do you want to try applique, hand or machine? Do you want something relatively simple and easy, or do you want to challenge yourself to something more complicated?

You could do a log cabin or a 10-minute block.

So far, I've found the Single Patch pattern to be the easiest. Yet in the book I've been learning from, had the Four Patch pattern before the single--the single is SO MUCH QUICKER! haha, if you want a quick accomplishment, google search it, I can't imagine it being a pattern you'd have to pay for!

I have a picture of both on a post "my UN-finished projects" under the pictures area.

Yellow Brick road - it was my first quilt, easy and fun.

I'd suggest going to a store and check out their quilt magazines. Find one that suits your fancy and read the instructions to see if you can follow them. I only buy a magazine if I can find at least 3 quilts that I would make out of it. The average price is $6.99. The average cost of a pattern is $8-9.00. So try the magazine idea before spending alot of money on patterns that you don't know if you will be able to do. Find a friend (on the Quilting Board there are lots of people who will take the time to explain things in detail) who can help you if you get stuck reading the instructions. Take your time, keep your seam ripper handy. We ALL have used one before and after 25 years, I still use one. It will be your next best friend. Welcome to the Quilting Board and if you need help, I'll help you. Cheryl

The Disappearing Nine-Patch is fun.

A small personal sized quilt will take only about 8 fat quarters.

After making 4 or so D9P mug rugs----------the hard part of that is decideing how to set it back together. Although it's fun to play with assorted layouts.