I took a Community Ed class back in the mid-80s. We made a sampler quilt (crib size). It was a quilt-as-you-go class. We hand pieced all the blocks then hand quilted each block on a lap frame and sewed them together (we were allowed to sew them together by machine as long as we hand sewed the back). Needless to say, mine never got finished and I still have it. I can't believe the quilting looks so bad! It took me nearly 20 years to get back to quilting. Now I don't hand piece or hand quilt. It just wasn't my cup of tea. And I've never taken another class but I watch a lot of TV shows, read a lot of books and learned a lot from the ladies in my church quilt group.