Honey you live in a quilting Mecca. Where do you live?
Here is a list off the top of my head.
Rockwall-Texas Quiltworks
Wylie-Blue Ribbon Quilts
Garland- Suzy's
Mesquite-Thomas's Sewing center (on Town East across from mall)
McKinney-Quilt Asylum
Carrollton-Olde Craft Store
Lewisville=Quilt Country
Cedar Hill has one, Arlington, has two, Colleyville has one, Waxahaxie has one
Wills Point has one.
Google "Quilt Shops in Texas"
Let me know where you live and I will point you in the direction of a guild. They will teach you a bunch.