Nope. No classes.
I wandered into a quilt shop in Pensecola FLA while on vacation. I saw a pattern I liked (YBR) and some fabrics I liked (mostly Kaffee Fassete stripes and solids). Bought enough for a lap quilt.
It sat around for 3 or 4 years in a drawer. I figured out one day that nobody was ever gonna make me a quilt so I dug out that unstarted project and started cutting fabric. I had bought a Bernina 830 a couple of years before so that wasn't needed. Of course, I had to read the instruction book to even figure out how to thread it. Decided about two days into the project that since I was never gonna make another quilt, I had better get more fabric and make a queen sized one.
Got one of the great Machine quilting books from Harriet somebody or other. It was great. Finished that quilt top (see my avatar) and have finished a couple more. Still working on quilts, patterns from magazines, books, or something derivative that I just think up.
I now do all my HSTs and Flying geese on an old Elna Super and the 830 is my main machine. I guess I have learned to do a bunch.
It's like my old paw said 40 years ago... "If ya can read, ya can do anything."
tim in san jose