Self taught for the first 15-20 years, then myself and a friend started a quilt grild. Now, I take any class I can find. We had our annual quilt retreat this weekend and had two sisters from Kansas come and teach us to do bobbin work. OH what a fun; thing to learn.
Also online at www.quiltuniversity.com If you haven't checked out that site it has classes starting every week from January to November. They take December off to update computers etc.
Books are a wonderful source of new ideas also. Check your library for quilt books, you can also request they inter library loan quilt books they do not have.
We are so fortunate to have all the good quilt magazines available to us. 43 years ago there were none. Then Quilters Newsletter started in 1969, information coming to the mailbox every couple months. It was heaven. Now there are so many its hard to choose.
Saw Eleanor Burns in Iowa at the AQS show last week. She is a hoot. Actually saw her sister Pat locally with a trunk show last month. Her sister was married to a guy(he has passed away) from a town about 30 miles east of us, so she gets back for family things and brings a trunk show with her.