Hi Bev. Welcome! I hope you can find some local quilters. I too had quilted alone for the past 4 years. I didn't really feel I wanted to join a guild so just plugged along learning all I could from books, TV shows, and this board especially. Well, it just so happens that last New Years Eve I was at a neighborhood party and while speaking to a neighbor discovered she quilted. She and I decided to get together to quilt and she invited several other neighbors that she knew quilted or wanted to learn. We now are starting to get together as a group once a month or so. It's amazing to me that all this time I had a group of inspired quilters right in my back yard. :-)