There are groups which you can join both national and local which are a great help.
The Quilters' Guild of the British Isles is a national membership organisation which was formed in 1979 and is made up of about 7,000 individual members, mostly from the UK, but also from Europe and other parts of the world. The Resource Centre has recently been awarded full museum status.
Quilters Guild [1]
The Guild is an Educational Charity which provides educational resources and services for its members, lends support to teachers within The Guild and liaises with educational bodies beyond the quilting world. Membership is open to anyone who works in patchwork, quilting or appliqué or has a special interest in quilts. A junior branch, the Young Quilters, caters for membership under 16 years.
A lot of the quilting teachers also have there own websites.
One of these is Patricia Mc Laughlin patriciapictorialquilts@btinternet.co.uk
home [2]
Links
[1] http://www.quiltersguild.org.uk/
[2] http://theingots.org/community/node/2363