I guess the only rules that might count are the guidelines for quilts that are entered in shows and will be judged. They definitely have ideas about what's right or not. Otherwise, I don't think there are too many. I'm mostly self-taught, so I just have to do things the way it seems to me would work. Example: For a long time, I didn't know how to make flying geese, so I had to make 2 hst's and put them together. Worked ok! (O: