Since I started sewing when I was 8, my mother taught me how she sewed (which she learned from her grandmother who was a professional seamstress/milliner). Then I took Home-Ec when I was in 8th & 10th grade where the teachers proceeded to tell me I was doing it all wrong. They were sure their ways were better and easier, so I would go along, because I wanted to pass their classes. But usually their way, was way slower. I do take quilting classes to see if they have ways I don't know about and honestly many times they do. (It does annoy me when I take a class and there is always someone that wants to tell the class how their way is better. Really? I am paying to learn from this woman.). I took a class and the instructor came over and I was doing so well she asked me when I was taking the class. Because it was her technique that was making me better. If you had seen her work you would want to learn it too. Sometimes people really go around the block to get something done. That's all part of the fun in sewing. Most recently I learned how to knot my thread by the needle so the thread doesn't pull out of the needle. Then wonder after all these years I had never thought or heard of doing it that way.