Aye, there's the rub. You can't spend stone until you have at least one extra crafting bowl. I am playing the BF version on a Mac, but I think it is pretty much the same. I found a helpful list of crafting items and took a pic with my phone. Now I can look up what I need.
This is going to take awhile, so if you are not comfortable letting the villagers do their thing most of the time, you might not like it. The important thing is to set it up so that it can run without you and not run out of food or villagers. A little planning is all. Oh, and when your people reach the end times of their life, I turn off all the skills so that they can do what they want and won't work too hard.
Explore everything! That means holding a villager up and hovering over everything you can find. Sometimes you can click on it and something comes up, but mostly a villager discovers things. Go everywhere!