You have received some excellent suggestions with all the responses. What a wonderful quilting board we have.
I would also add tutorials by Jenny Doan at Missouri Star Quilt Company. She uses only precuts ( 2 1/2" strips or squares, 5" squares, 10 x 8 " pieces, etc.). You can make your own 'precuts' to use her patterns. To buy the precuts really cuts down on cutting time but this is a skill you also need to know.
She has taken a lot of the traditional quilt blocks and has simplified the process. She also has a new magazine named BLOCK.
I am a Jenny Doan fan!