Actually self taught. Paged thru mil's old quilting books back in the summer of 2000 and thought I could do that, so I bought up a bunch of material and got busy. Didn't know squat about rotary cutting so I cut the pieces for the Dresden Plate, the Bow Tie and the Spool quilt out all by hand!All were queen sized and all were hand quilted. So glad I wised up after watching Eleanor Burns and got the rotary cutter! But I still hand quilt all my quilts.