Put me in the post internet stage. One of my best friends was a quilter. She did beautiful work. I wanted to make ONE quilt, so I put it on my bucket list.
I went to the quilt shop and was promptly instructed that I could never make a quilt without her class. I had sewn clothes (very well) in teen years, so I figured that quilting couldn't be that hard. Very offended, I was determined that I could make a quilt.
The ladies at another quilt shop told me that starting with a log cabin might be the wrong start. So I made a D9P. It was decent. I have to credit the ladies at Urban Spools in Dallas, the internet and the ladies on GardenWeb quilting forum.
So, no I probably wouldn't be quilting if there was no internet quilting community.
bkay