IF YOU TOOK QUILTING CLASSES WHEN & WHERE
I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD INTERESTING TO KNOW

I've never taken a quilting class. I have had 3 longarm instruction sessions. I don't believe I've ever made anything in a class, though.

Austin Sewing

I've never taken a quilting class, give me a picutre and instructions and I can do it. I like to work by myself.

My lessons come from the people with all the knowledge I need right here on Quilt Board! :)

I took a beginning class at a local school evening course and learned a ton! We hand pieced a sampler using 9 different techniques.
I have taken classes at my LQS. They are fun to do once in awhile. I also took a class with Carol Doak and one with Jinny Beyer and had a blast at both!

My first class was from a book. Well, lots of books. Every one I could find from the library along with videos, too. Then for my second quilt, I took a class at my local quilt shop to do a pattern called Wink and a Smile.

I never took a quilting class. I just bought a learning to quilt book and went from there. I have trouble following a pattern, so sometimes I just wing it.

I've taken several quilting classes at my LQS ... also a couple at school through Community Ed.

I took a class to learn how to machine quilt on my home sewing machine. It was great. Quincy, Illinois. I've also taken a couple of workshops about quilt construction, but am mostly self-taught. I've sewn since I was a teen (that's a long time ago.)

I don't need no stinkin' class. I's apparently rather mess up and make mistakes and learn on my own. Sometimes I am a trial to myself.

I took one quilting class, at a local community college in Connecticut, about 22 years ago. I enjoyed it, and never took another one. Hmmm.

There are three LQS that I love. The classes are fun and I get to meet other quilters. I have only been quilting for a little over a year so I have lots to learn.
Tomorrow is an all day class at the Buggy Barn that I have been wanting to do for about a year. I am so excited! Gotta go press my FQ's soon.

Took a couple classes taught by the headmistress of my son't school in Vanuatu about 18 years ago. Didn't touch it again until about 7 years ago-just re-taught my self from the masses of books and magazines I have collected and subscribed to since then. I would LOVE to take classes on bag making, foundation piecing, art quilts, and now Sashiko, but our LQS here hasn't had any of those since I moved back here this year. I'll keep looking! After seeing all those cute bags posted, I would LOVE to learn-just don't have the guts to try on my own!!

Little Blessings Quilt Shop in Crossville, TN. If you are anywhere in driving distance and want to take a class I HIGHLY recommend Julia at Little Blessings.

Darren

I teach quilting and sewing and I still take classes. I do samples for the store , so I have to learn new techniques. I'm taking Betty Cotton classes for the next two days. I've taken six classes fom her already, but I love that technique so everytime she comes to our LQS I take the classes. She always has something new to learn. I love hanging out, sewing and meeting new people and I'm going to be meeting Sunkistmi from this board in class tomorrow.

Never had a class - I am self taught - I prefer that I have learned alot here and the internet and I like that - its very rewarding to learn something new and make it work.

Mom, Aunt & Grams Kitchen table and hanging out w/them while they sewed :)

first 3 classes I took at the local quilt shop right around the corner from my mothers house in La Mesa CA. Loved the classes!! wish I was right in Paducah so I could take lots more classes, there is always some thing new to learn, and who knows might even be lucky enough to meet new best friend, and ya know right off you have some thing in common.
Have been teaching also and each time I give a class I learn some thing too. and quilt classes can be so much fun!!

I have taken several quilting classes at my LQS. I really enjoy them and socializing at the same time.

Quilting classes? What's that?? :lol:

I have never taken one. It would have been helpful when I started though.

Mom taught me to sew on her old black Singer when I was eight.
Home Ec classes in Grade 7 and 8 nearly killed my love for sewing.
The rest, I've taught myself from books, and more recently , online tutorials.

Have taken tons of classes, mostly by going to Quilting by the Lake in Upstate New York for many years starting in the mid 80s. It's gotten very expensive, but if you can afford it - an experience worth having.

Also, at my LQS and when one of my Guilds brings in a top teacher. My first class was with Karen Berkenfeld at FIT in NYC in the 70s; still use the scissors she gave everyone.

The best classes have been with: Nancy Crow - fabulous, really stretches you; Maurine Noble from whom I learned machine quilting and thread uses; Jean Biddick - the best piecer I've seen and from whom I learned about IBC silk super-fine pins that sew over easily w/no damage to the needle; Margaret Miller just cause I love her.

Those would be my top 4. There were many more from whom I learned alot, made some friends from around the world, and had a good time.

online at QuiltU. This was after I had already made 3 Sunbonnet Sue lapquilts though. I wanted to learn the ins and outs of everything. I'm looking at their spring lineup and see several classes I want to take. I like online cause I can do it on my time. If I want to work on it in the middle of the day or the middle of the night its ok.

I have never taken a piecing class, but have taken some longarming classes.

The piecing I learned by trial and error, and Grandma and books :)

The longarming, advanced, I learned in classes, but the beginnings I learned by myself, books and DVD's (some of which are totally awesome and better than a class!).

Debbie in Austin

LQS quilters corner in midwest city oklahoma. i took a fundamentals class(after making and hand quiliting 3 baby quilts and two king sized quilts without any instructions)
i did learn some short cuts and will take a techniques class and probably both a hand quilting and a machine quilting class.

I just took a free motion qlting class at a sewing machine/vacuum shop. and took one yrs ago at a local qlt shop(since closed). never took any other classes.

I am in week 6 of an 8-week series of quilting classes at the local dealer. Last month, I took a hand-quilting class at an LQQS close to work with Jean Brown (of Aunt Becky fame).

Today I just had a Hawaiian Applique class with Jean Brown. I like to mix it up.

I have taken several classes at my LQS call " A peice in time" in Akron, ohio. I took beginning quilting in which we made a 9 block sampler. Now I am taking a machine quilting class. I have really learned so much for all classes. I am one who likes to learn from other mistakes and knowledge. Plus I find it easier to be shown then to read from books. I have been a "sewer " for many years but that was not the same as quilting. These classes have really taught me to SLOW DOWN with my sewing. Also I am shewing my DSIL many things and she has been quilting for 15 years.

I used to lead management workshops
Have forgotten most of what I once knew
One thing I do remember is there are 4 learning styles. Some learn from a book ( not you, nor I), some from observation, some from doing with a live instructor (you and I).
I don't remember the 4th style.

I love taking classes at my LQS. Not only do you see some new ways of doing things but you meet other people with the same interest. I love learning new things, I don't think I've taken a class yet where I haven't had a ball.

I am for the most part self-taught. I did take two different classes on PP, the first one had me cut out all of the pieces and add on the 1/4 in seam, (what a pain in the pitutte that was, the second was so much better. George Sciliano had this neat little ruler with the swing edge....I fell in love with PP. Now that I have one of Carol Doaks' book, I am anxious to get started on those! I found Quilterscache.com, and have been using many of those patterns. And then I found THIS site, and have been so fortunate to have the generosity of the talent quilters here!

First beginning class was at a LQS, then followed with several more at a local Pfaff dealer. Now it's mostly guild workshops. What I get from classes with quilt artists are their tips and tricks. I'm visual so seeing it done helps me.

Where do you get your cute little things to add to your message? I see where the smiles come from but nothing else.

I tried to learn from a book, after years of dressmaking, almost to the point of also doing tailoring,and it was an exercise in frustration. There was nothing wrong with the book. I didn't like the inaccuracy. A year or two later three local quilters advertised "make six gifts before Christmas." We started in Sept. When I went to purchase fabric for the first class, a couple of cheater blocks and fabric, the shop owner asked me if I had the rotary cutter, etc. I was totally dumb and had no idea what she was talking about. She demonstrated. I spent another $100 on the necessary mat, ruler and cutter plus a square up ruler. This was my kick start. This was back in the early 90s and the instructions were for templates and scissors. Eventually the book was rewritten for rotary cutting system. We learned a different method, and sometimes more than one, per item. That was my Kick Start and though I have taken just a few more since them they ended up being a social outing and I ended up doing my own thing. Despite having quilted seriously for nearly 20 years I am still learning from forums, reading and just plain trying.

I took a beginner quilting class at LQS which got me going. I hadn't done any sewing for probably 30 years before that. Still had my Pencrest sewing machine which was probably 40 years old. It still worked well after all that time! After taking the class I bought a Pfaff which is what we used in the class, really like it, too. I would like to take more classes or workshops but so far hasn't worked out. I have learned so much from the internet, including this site.

No class. Learned from a co worker, this board, and my customers.

I also look at pictures and say, "O.k. I can do that." OR "yeah, right, I don't think so" LOL

I look at some patterns/pictures, make changes and go from there.

Or create my own.

I then like to teach others.

the only "quilt class" I have ever taken are the ones I watch on t.v. - I learned a lot from "Simply Quilts" and the old Fons & Porter ones. Also Eleanor Burns "Quilt in a day" - but the ones that are still on aren't shown at convenient times anymore.

I have never taking any classes, guess I worry to much what others may think of my methods. Just reading magazines, books, TV and trial and error. Oh yeah my sister also helps with some things.

I took a hand quilting (no pieceing) class in about 1980. Although I don't hand quilt any more.