how about having a session once or twice a month on a regular basis to try out new items or a specific item and help us quilters learn to use them? once we find something new and neat we all tell others about it and just "have" to have it. lol. it helps me to try something hands on before i take the leap to spend $20 for a new ruler or a new quilt book or whatever. for instance i've seen several different ways to make flying geese and have always wanted to try the eleanor burns flying geese rulers but don't want to spend that extra money if i'm not going to like doing them that way.