I belong to our local guild. We usually end our membership year with over 500 members. We have, during the year 6 or 7 nationally know speakers, and those speakers usually have a couple of workshops for our members. Those workshops are for normally about 25-20 people and are classes the speaker offers. The only actual sewing that is done at our meeting is people doing handwork of their own. We have had Sharon Craig and Ruth McDowell each a couple of times. Also had Brenda Henning, and many other well known authors. We have a raffle quilt each year and all of the proceeds go to a local charity. And our members teach workshops once a year at a very reasonable price for other members.