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I'm almost entirely self-taught, actually! Some of the basics I learned from my mom and grandmothers (and in one case a friend), but for the most part I just fake it. :P Most of the things I've made are just a matter of "put fabric against body, mark outlines, add hem/seam allowances, stitch together, turn right-side out." The rest is just practice and figuring out how to read a pattern.