That is a great story! I wish I had started by taking a sampler class, or ANY class, for that matter. Instead, I learned by making mistakes, often the SAME mistakes, over and over again… 
The trendy ’80s peach and blue color palette and how we feel about it now, 30 years later, is very telling. It’s always so exciting to see classic quilt patterns remade in “current” colors, but as time goes by it really looks date-stamped, doesn’t it? I’m sure we’ll feel the same way about the chocolate brown/baby blue quilts and the yellow/gray quilts in 2044.