My first quilting "class" was at my local senior center. Turned out the
teacher did not teach anything, but the encouragement of the other
ladies was wonderful. I was a new widow at the time & I did not realize that quilting cost money. I thought you just used what you had & sewed it into a quilt. LOL.
So, the ladies brought me scraps & I bought 1/2 yard of fabric with pictures of cute little bears doing cute things & I put one in the center of each crazy quilt square. Used an old flannel sheet for backing & hand
quilted it into a beautiful twin sized quilt for my then 6 year old grandson, who has loved it to death.
And I met one special lady there who became one of my very best friends for the past 8 years.