My mother taught me to sew when I was 7. I was ill for a year and she did it in self defense. It kept me busy. I watched her quilt and by the time I was 13 I was sewing and quilting beside her. That was 40+ years ago! I am always learning new things. I started at the library, before the web. I've been using the web since 1995. When I want to find out how to do something, I always search the web, such as when I needed to learn how to paper piece for a project where I was piecing little 3 inch triangles for a fractal quilt. I just take what Mom taught me and keep adding to it.