Sounds like a good teacher! $45 is a great price for a 6 hour class.
I agree that a class is a valuable way to learn to quilt, both by hand and by machine. Of course, I am a teacher, so I naturally think that :wink: but I know that I have at least 90 minutes of "lecture" to impart, and 10 pages of handouts, and it takes an hour or two of hands-on, supervised work to feel comfortable with using the machine in a new way. It would be hard to just pick up all that information on your own.
I know... I tried. It looked so easy when I saw other people do it, and I thought I could do it on my own, but eventually I gave up and took some classes.