In my area Hancocks has relatively inexpensive classes and so do the LQSs. Check out local guilds before joining any. Seems like all of them are different. Here there's two. One is very exclusive. It's a group of friends that get together to sew and they don't allow anyone else in. The other one never sews, they only have business meetings. I joined a "club" called the Strips and Scraps club. We meet once a month and sew for several hours at a local quilt store. It's free but it seems I never get out of there for less that $10 or $15 dollars, sometimes more. Check around, ask at your quilt stores.