I have been quilting for 6 years. I guess I am now an intermediate. But I look at it as not being perfect but to learn something on each quilt I make. When I am done, I look at it and try to find all of the little things that I learned while doing it or that I perfected a little bit. Then I will hopefully remember them when I do another similar quilt. I belong to a very small guild (18 members) and have learned so much from my fellow quilters there. Sometimes we do quilts together and other times we have a "Sit and Sew" time and always a "show and tell" after lunch. We meet twice a month from 10AM to 2PM at our local library where there is a big room with lots of tables and electrical outlets for our machines. When we have a new member, we all pitch in to help them learn. That was really how I learned.