I am self taught. And I'm still learning. I started learning to quilt last winter...around Jan. or Feb. I decided that I would find out whatever I could on-line or quilting books, and thank goodness I found this board. What a help the board has been. Any questions that I have asked have been answered fast. I would love to get to where I could look at something and go home & make it. But, as of right now I do mostly patterns or just squares of different sizes.