I am also sorta self taught I did attend neighrborhood quilt club learned alot from them. I also am a self taught sorta longarm quilter I did attend a few classes got the basics then from videos. I am in my late 70's so I find I cannot quilt al long as I used to. I do not have a computerized longarm so it is more physical but I love all of it and hope to continue until my time is up.