One of the Guilds I belong to BHQG had a wonderful Pot Luck, and If you wanted to participate you could bring a $10.00 wrapped gift(not required), 3 fat Quarters (only if you wanted to play the game) for a game called Left, Right Center. They also have several quilts (believe this year it was 3 Toppers and 4 or 5 twin size quilts)and or table topper (Christmasy) that thru out the year or part of the year they sell chances to have, thru a drawing at the Christmas Party for Guild Memebers. The money made from this raffle is for the Project Warmth Quilts that are made.
This year for the gifts everybody (about a 140 attended though some elect to not bring gifts)) was to stand in a circle with their gift and one of the gals read "The Night Before Christmas" and everytime you heard the word "The" you passed the present to the left. Whichever present you had at the end of the story was your to keep. It was a Blast!
The game Left, Right , Center is quite fun too! It is played with three dice and the 3 fat quarters. We broke down into several circle groups I think 5. The dice have an L, and R, a C and a Dot on them. The first time you roll the dice you roll all three. Then you do what the dice says with your fat Quarters, If you rolled an R, and L and a dot then one of your fat quarters you would hand to the left, one to the right and the dot meant you got to keep that one. If you rolled a C then that fat Quarter would end up in the center. The next time you roll the dice would depend on how many fat quarters you have left and then that is how many dice you would roll. The main object of the game is to be the last person with a fat quarter and win all the fat quarters that end up in the center.(eventually they all end up there but the winning one). It was tons of fun!
They also hand out yearly membership pins for 10 years,20 years, and had 30 years too. Pretty Neat!
The 2nd Guild I belong to HMQG also has a Pot Luck(lots of Yummy food), and then prior to the party if you wanted you could make a set of tea pots with tea cup. For every set you made you could put your name in to get a set back. ( there were some beautiful ones made).Then at the begining of the year they had decided for everytime you brought a Show and Tell to a meeting you would get your name in a drawing at the Christmas Party for different gifts. Though this year some of them we're previous owned items(which I personally did not think was too neat))**Sorry My moment of gripe*** a warped photo album***)(A far cry from the Accu cut that was mentioned at the begining of the year that was a NO show)
All in All they both were fun and tons of food were brought.
It is neat to read about the different ideas each guild has.