I second doing some courses, they are heaps of fun, get you started and gives you and outting to look forward to each week - can you tell I miss my weekly quilting classes :-(

I have been to some where I bought my machine which taught me all the features of my machine and another which was a beginners quilting class which was fantastic!

I started making wall hangings and things for my classroom - lots of straight sewing and lots of mistakes :-)