raptureready

It is, you have to make reservations or if it's 'spur of the moment' you have to call and make sure there's room but it's a pretty big place so there's usually room for one more.

BellaBoo

I'm president of mine. It's very different how I feel about the guild from being a member to being president. At least I did my part to contribute and I will rest on my laurels after this term.

zyxquilts

Yes, I do belong to a guild ~ I joined at their first meeting (I'm member #29!). We're a bit over 100 members now, and about 15 years old.
We meet once a month (tonight!) and have a business meeting, show & tell, door prizes & usually a speaker each time. Sometimes we'll do a 'round robin' meeting, where 5 or 6 members will each teach a technique & we move around the room to see them all. The members whose birthday month it is bring goodies that month, along with our usual roll-ups or little sandwiches that the guild provides. We also have BOM, charm squares & swap-a-block. Many months we have workshops, often given by that month's speaker, and they are lots of fun & a great bargain!
Every other year we have a quilt show - which is the first weekend of May, this year - come on down!!!

HIBISCUS

Hi, Flor-heat-a, do you live close to jacksonville??? There are several guilds here, some meet daytime, one I think meets in the evening.

quilterjody

I used to belong to a guild, but was turned off by the politics of it all that I stopped going. The people were not friendly and didn't really want any new members even though they said they did. It was not a good experience.

laralea

I just joined the Charlotte guild last night after visiting as a guest a couple times. It is a large and very active group with lots of opportunity to be involved. They have great speakers like Laura Wasilowski and Ellen Guerrant. They are hosting a huge quilting symposium at Johnson and Wales Univ. (that's the chef university!) in Charlotte in June. They've even arranged to have an artisan bread workshop with Peter Reinhart. I signed up to be a teacher's helper for Laura Wasilowski, which means I get to be at her service for the whole time she is there - couldn't pass up that opportunity!! I probably won't join any of the small groups since I live out in SC suburbs. We have a smaller guild here, but they have 70-75 people turn out at their meetings so I plan to join up there too. There's others, but they are too far away.

oksewglad

I'm a second year member of our local small guild. Like Inordyke in Missouri ours is pretty casual, but would like to see ours a little more active. The bus trip sounds fun! I've shared a couple of things I've learned on the Board with them and they enjoyed it as many are not computer savy.

raptureready

I commend you for being a person that can do that. I have one sister that was president of our painting club for several terms and she was good at it. I have a friend who's a member of every club and organization that there is around here and she's good at it too. I'm just not a person that enjoys it (I think I'm too disorganized) but I have great respect for those who do. It can be a difficult job.

SewExtremeSeams

Wow! What a wonderful opportunity. The price seems right for most of us quilters too. Linda

Pam

I live between two very small rural communities and belong to both of those quilt guilds, as well as one in a larger city, 50 miles away. I also belong to an art quilt guild. The name is funny, so I will share it. The Underground Art Movement. We meet in one of the lady's basement. I also belong to a committee that organizes and puts on a fabulous quilt retreat in August.

I am not from this area, but because I am involved in so many quilting related things, I rarely go anywhere without running into someone I know through quilting.

It is a great way to make friends, and see which ones to stay away from, we have THOSE, too.