For the most part I am self-taught. My mother taught me to sew, starting with doll clothes and graduating to clothes for me and my sisters. I fell in love with the patchwork quilts and started so decided I could do that and just started sewing them. Then I got an encyclopedia of sewing book and it had a section in it on quilting. That introduced me to the world of quilts and another friend told me about a class at the local adult school she was taking. She shared her information and I found some classes at the LQS. I am not sure if there is anything that holds with me because I have been doing it for so long now and can't remember specifically who taught me what. I do have a "Go For It" attitude - if I like it and there are written instructions I can pretty much figure out how to to do it. Some times even do it a bit easier than the instructions.