I'm beginning the "confident beginner" stage I think. I can't count all the quilts I've made because I don't have pictures of all of them, and most were given away. But I have the confidence to start making my own patterns with the blocks, and I have the confidence in my sewing and techniques that I can do something new. But in the end we are all beginners at the start of a new technique for us, and are old pro's with another technique that we've done thousands of times.