I am self taught. I couldn't afford material let alone a quilt class. I did order a couple of books. I used old clothes and cut out templates from cardboard. I drew each and every square or triangle on the fabric and cut each out with scissors. Very tedious. My oldest -my daughter was 5 she will be 34 this Oct.
I took a class offered close to home and I didn't get much out of it. I got the directions for a few quilt blocks I didn't have but all she had us do was cut out the fabric with her templates and take it home and sew it . I went home and used my cut down method instead of her templates and I never did put the blocks into a quilt. It was a sampler and I was mostly interested in getting the picture of the blocks so I could do them my way anyway.
I don't have the time for a full size quilt.