I am a newbie and still working on my first quilt. I started out with another quilt and will get back to it, although I thought it would be simple when I started it, it was too hard for me to start with. This one is a strip quilt. I bought the strips already cut and added a focus fabric. I chose backing fabric, put a few blocks and part of a panel on it. I sandwiched it and basted and pinned it. Well, when I tried to machine quilt on my Elna, the back was too loose and bunched up. I took all that out and I am now hand quilting it on a rectangular pvc quilting stretcher. It is looking nice so far although I can see some mistakes.
I think I will stick with strip and block quilts for a while until my sewing skills get back to where they were when I sewed more.
Reading what everyone does and seeing the georgous quilts on this board inspires me. Maybe I will grow up to be able to do some quilts like these.