Self taught, my first quilt was for my daughter when I was pregnant (1982). Choose Bambi for her room and they had nothing then - long before Disney Stores. Found a coloring book and did a liquid embroidery with green sashing - not very good but she loved it and we still have it.
My mom was a quilter but she started after I left home, she was self-taught also but later she got to sew with my grandma. When my mom went to the nursing home my sister and I split her stuff up easily, she took applique type stuff and I took the traditional piecing.
I too started after watching Simply Quilts. I have taken a few "classes" and usually end up modifying the directions (rule breaker I am). The last retreat I went to the instructor got mad because I was showing other students "another" way to do the border.
I also tend to piece more than quilt, more tops than finished quilts, too many UFO's and WIP's.