I don't belong to a big guild but I have two small groups that I go to. We meet in each others homes, have a salad lunch or soup. Usually we have some sort of a quilt challenge going on, and one of the groups go tot he beach for 4 days. We have been doing this for about 20+ years. We have made blocks for each other so we all have quilts made that we can snuggle under. I don't enjoy big guilds because they are too impersonal. Jan