I don't know about y'all, but I feel like I've had a class just about every time I "travel" through this QB.

My answer exactly :D

like she said, and besides i'm a know-it-all. nobody can teach me anything. ask my family and friends (if i still have any).LOL!

No Class - just searched internet & bought a LOT of quilting books.

Piedmont Quilter

About 15 years ago, bc I was always sewing, and made some curtains for my bedroom, I took some calico cotton prints, cute 12 big squares, don't even remember how i did it...I know i didn't know how to "square them up...sewed them all together, with a pieced sashing...flying by the seat of my pants.
Had never seen a book, a tv show, and hadn't ever owned a computer. It turned out pretty good, and i still have it. Now, as nice as it looks on the front...lol...turn it over...I must have taken this camel colored fabric that my mother gave me, and machine sewed it, huge asterik style, to an old blanket, then put on top and 'tied' it.
Never did another quilty thing till about 3 years ago. My grandma told me she was helping with a raffle quilt, and she was making a wall hanging. She had to explain to me what that was. She said, "Cheryl, the way you sew and love fabrics, I know you would love quilting." So I bought a magazine.
The rest has been out of books, and off this site.
No classes here, and no quilters around here. I am a lonely little petunia in an onion patch...and landed in the best place you can be! :D

I had made cheater quilts for babies, then several years ago I started watching Simply quilts and Carol Duvall. I made some tapes for future use; I even catalogued the tapes. After watching for a couple of years, I got up the nerve to make a quilt when one of my nieces got married. I went to the library and found a pattern I liked (churn dash blocks). I didn't make another until my nephew got married. Once I moved down here, I started quilting all the time with my sister and nephew's MIL and a couple of friends. My sis and I did the BOM at a local quilt shop last year, and we're doing it again this year. I have to agree that I learn a lot here.
I also check out patterns online as well as tips from some other sites. (None as helpful as here I think).

I did not take a class when I made my first quilt. I had done some sewing in the past. And I watched "Simply Quilts" all the time. It turned out OK. But I really wanted help with how to sandwich the quilt and then machine quilt. So I took a beginning quitling class. It only covered making the quilt top. I was really disappointed but I did learn many great tips. And it was great to have fun with the ladies. I was totally surprised to hear that many people send their quilts to someone else to do the quilting.

I read several books and just talked to other quilters. I put together everyone's hints and I can now make a quilt from beginning to end.

I take a class once in a while now. I always learn something new.

I did. and my project is still not finished. I have maybe 100 stitches and it will be done.

30 years ago my stitches were small and perfect. I think that is why I never finished it.. Perfection.. crazy.. It is the perfect color for my walls again !

Thanks for the reminder.. need to finish that darn thing !!

Log cabin, card tricks, honey bee, applique hearts in a four leaf clover design.

Ellen

My first quilt I hand pieced it, blanket stiched the pre-printed Santa appliques and hand EMBROIDERED the thing together. I didn't know about quilting.......LOL. Then I got a an idea to do a quilt for my mom and just started to do it only this time machined pieced, hand appliqued and finally quilted together. Then I took a class!!! It made things much simpler and after reading a book on hand quilting by Alex Anderson I hand quilted it together. I have taken other classes and my guild runs mystery bees and new members classes all the time. The new members bee always tries to teach a technique. It's usually fun even if you are not new to quilting.

I forgot about my first quilt, a disaster.
Back when they had liquid embroidery I traced coloring book pictures and painted them with liquid embrodery pens. This turned out nice but them made the mistake of using a wool blanket for batting. When washed it shrank so much it ruined the quilt.
This was before the internet and tv quilting shows. Now I have learned how to quilt and am addicted.

I did one quilt first then took a sampler class. I really learned lots doing all the different blocks. It was all done by hand but each square turned out perfect and I still have that quilt some 30 years later. Love it. I took tow others a Trip around the World Strip quilt and a log cabin. I haven't done any for years but I'd like to take some more classes but haven't any place offering them that is close. They are fun to see others doing the same pattern and how each is so different.