I took home economics in high school, which was many years ago now. I made my own wedding dress which was not elaborate but it was what I wanted at the time. Since then I sewing for my girls. Started making quilts by buying quilting magazines and reading and doing them to my size I wanted to make it. Otherwise I took some classes on making purses. They just have a project and you make it at the class as much as I could get done. I not real fast, I had to finish most of my projects at home. Sometimes we had homework before the class. I just learned by doing and reading.