I've never taken a quilting class, just doing it on my own and reading. Sometimes I go with the instructions and sometimes in reading them, they just don't make sense to me. When that happens I usually try to take the time to do a trial with scraps to see if what I'm being told to do really works. Often it doesn't so I just do it the way it makes sense to me. We don't all think the same or sew the same so I'm all for doing it the way you do best! I think an instructor would just confuse me; my mom taught me to sew 45+years ago and she's has left-handed tendencies and I am right-handed all the way but I do some things left handed.