Self taught, I sewed a lot of clothes when my kids were little and then took up quilting when the grandkids came along.

I'm self taught. My mom was one who could see something, then go home and make it. She would get the Penny's and Ward's catalogues, then make the clothes without the need for ordering them.

She never taught me anything. Partially because she was too ill to teach and partially because she thought by the time we grew up women wouldn't need to know any of that stuff anymore.

I took one 4 hour beginner class years ago. Almost everything else I've learned from here. I've gotten books now, but more for the patterns than the techniques in them. I recently started playing around with free motion quilting (FMQ) and all the links and resources I've used are either on this board or links from members of this board.

8 years later, I consider myself an advanced beginner...don't know if I'll ever be intermediate, but I'm having a great time!

I am self taught - I read a lot of books - and let the fabric guide me. I always wanted to quilt as my paternal grandmother was a wonderful quilter, but I was never around her long enough to be taught anything (as she and I were in different states), but one of my first quilts was a close duplicate of one she made for us in 1957, out of wool and feed sacks, couldn't find the wool - but I matched it as close as I could.

Self taught, no time for a class.

I'm "mixed". Took a beginners quilting class and never looked back. There is sooo much information from this Board and on the internet am not really motivated to take more classes.

I remember as a child sitting around the kitchen table cutting out and sewing squares for our quilts that Mother was working on.
When Sula Bug was a little girl I put the dictunary on the floor for her to put her foot on to reach the knee feed on the sewing maching when I taught her to sew.Sewing just ran in our family. Handquilter

self taught, I probably would know more if I had taken classes.

I am self taught, wanted to take classes but haven't started yet. I, too have learned a lot on this site and on the you-tube videos, they are great!

I am learning started sewing 55 years ago but did not start on quilts till about40 years ago. I have taken classes but most of what I have learned has been by just doing.

I am self taught and I guess we do most things ourselves. It must be in the DNA, because, for a whole year it was "Monca do it self" and a scream if we said the H word (help)

I had been in 4-H since I was 8, so when it was time for high school, I looked into home Ec. The teacher told me not to bother, I probaly knew more than her in the sewing area.