Thanks for the compliment on my Sampler quilt. When my sister got me into quilting back in 1996, she insisted & even paid for me to take a class. Well, I thought I was teaching the class. There were about 12 people in the class & no machines were brought to class. The instructor would demonstrate a black, give us some hand written directions, & you were supposed to go home & create your own block. There were a couple beginner sewers that were still trying to learn how to thread a machine. I'm a retired teacher, so shortly after, I taught sewing/quilting at a local sew-n-vac shop. I would have beginners make a quilted pot holder & then a lap/baby quilt. I made sure that they completed the project start to finish. I remember how proud they would be of their 1st pot holder.