Such good advice. I would add learning how to cut, sew, press and trim accurately. It makes putting the blocks together so much easier. The other very important thing is: joining the ends of the binding by sewing the ends together on the bias. Jenny Doan has a good video on that, but I put a triangle at the beginning of my binding and cut the end at the base of that triangle. No 10 inch tails. It joins just like all the other seams in your binding. You only need an overlap the length of the width of your binding, and the triangle measures that for you.