Self-taught, but after spending hours playing with cousins under the quilt frame (hung from eye hooks screwed into the ceiling) at my grandmother's, I probably picked up a bit of instruction (and lots of community gossip. If we were quiet and still long enough, the moms/grandmoms would forget we were under there) --and I definitely got the quilting bug, but it didn't surface for several years. My grandmother had passed away by then. I know she would be proud of me though.
I want to go to one of those several-day workshops or maybe even go on a quilting cruise. Any advice on that?