I am self taught, got tired of being told, but other quilters, who didn't care to help me, & keep saying, oh, you need to take a class! Well, that might not be true if you already know how to sew & have been doing for years, like I had. So, I went looking through quilt mags, saw what, to me, looked like an easy pattern, then I went home & made one, & have been quilting ever since! If you think you can do something, you probably can, & you don't have wait to take a class. If you do, then you may end up like me, with the two I did take! i got bored, & sat there thinking, for this I took a class? I could do this with a pattern of my own at home, what a waste of time & money! So go for it!...