I join the chorus on the Jinny Beyer recommendations. I also applaud your choice to hand piece. It's great to have a take-along project and is therapeutic in a way unlike regular machine piecing, though both have their place for sure. Here's a video showing Jinny joining squares, then the row, and the perfect method for matching points, accuracy, controlling tension, etc. I don't think you can find better than Jinny Beyer. You could spend months watching all her videos and they all are quite nice.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_nIPPESxbM