Hi all I have read what you have said about your experince with guilds. I belong to the Austin area quilt guild we have over 600 members. We are an evening meeting but we do also have morning meeting 4 time a year for the member that work. We also have several men in our group and also younger members. We welcome new guest evey month .We ask member to please welcome new member and guess that are sitting next to them. We have work shops every month and the speaker speaks at the morning and the evening meeting. So if any of you are in the Austin Texas area were having out meeting this monday 10.am morning and 6.45 pm Our show and tell last 15 to 20 minutes then we have our short business meeting then the speaker starts after that. Maybe those that have had a bad time trying to get into a guild needs to go up to there president and tell her what your upset about so it can be fixed. I have always found most quilter to be very helpfull in sharing what they know. Texas garnny