Hello and welcome from Michigan! You can come have lunch with me anytime and I'll talk your ear off! And we would have so much fun sewing all day!! I'm so blessed to have friends to quilt with and two sewing groups that I go to where the women are all friendly and warm. I also recently joined a guild and because I went with a friend, she kinda helped pave the way by introducing me to people and now her friends always save me a seat. It's hard usually to "break in" to a new group. I don't think people mean to be unfriendly or hurtful, they may just be shy or not know what to say to a newcomer. I know it's hard for me unless someone introduces me.