watched a youtube video and then created a patchwork quilt. Then I found a LQS and did a BOM. That taught me a lot and now I take a class once a month to learn a new thing :)

This Board, and UTube...and other blogs.

I learned with Mary Ellen Hopkins It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt, too, in a class with an MEH trained instructor. Mary Ellen herself became my friend several years later and I still use all the techniques I've learned through all her books and seminars over the past 3 decades. SO grateful I learned to quilt this way, it has served me so very well!! :-)

Jan in VA

I taught myself using the internet

Me, too. And although I had the required semester of sewing in 8th grade and a mother with wonderful needlecraft skills, I have to say that most of my sewing skills were self taught also, from reading the manual and sewing books.

I am not a good student in a class where you have to work along with the instructor. For some reason my mind wanders and I miss what's being said. If I can dig it out of printed words, where I can get back to it over and over, that's what works best for me. I've also taught myself knitting and crocheting and several other things. It was a slower process than it would be today, now that step by step video tutorials are available 24/7 for any technique you want to learn, and you can pause and repeat as needed.

My BFF taught me quilting 6 years ago. I visited a quilt shop with her, and once I saw the quilts on display and the beautiful fabrics, I was instantly hooked. She was a very good and patient teacher!!

my GM taught me to sew and then to do some piecing on her treadle, sure wish i had it now. it was her moms and was old when i was learning.

My Grandmother and my Aunt taught me how to quilt while they were also busy teaching me to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, needlepoint, x-stitch, tatt, bake and garden. I'm so glad my brain was such a huge sponge back then when I was little! And I'll forever be thankful that I had those two wonderful ladies that knew how to do so much and were eager to pass their skills on to me.
Anything they hadn't taught me, I picked up from magazines and books.

My grandmother and mother. I was small when grandma was alive and still quilting but I was always there. They let me set in on a few of the quilts and show me stiching, etc. I learned piecing by myself or patterns, but the hand quilting is all grandma. Mom told me just the other day she wished grandma was here to see some of my projects.

Started just by doing it and it looked it. Then lots of books. LOTS of them. And now I'm learning a lot here and on Youtube.