My mother taught me to embroider when I was very young. Maybe 7 or8 . I still have the hoop she taught me on. Other than that she didn't sew. I remember making a bag when I was in homeec when I was about 9 or 10. It was on a treadle machine. But thats it. I made a quilt when my son was young and didn't know thats what I was doing.It was a copy of a hot air balloon shade he had. machine appliqued and outline machine quilted. lol
I always made my own clothes in middle school and high school. Circumstances changed then and I had to go live with my grandparents. Who were still living back in the 30's. So it was survival that I learned to sew. Other than a couple of homeec classes I taught my self.
Took one class back in the 80's from a lady named Ruth Brill in FL at the middle school at night. It was all hand done and hand quilted a sampler quilt. Let my daughter borrow it and never saw it again.
I have taken one machine quilting class but for health and money reasons have not been able to take anymore. There are no quilt guilds big enough to have teachers near enough to me for me to go. And traveling for classes is out right now.
Most of the classes they have at the quilt shops around me I am just not interested in. Sooo I use books the internet and this group to see new things. Others I just make up as I go along. lol