I love my quilt guild! We have about 25 members and every one of them is willing to share their knowlege and help the others in the guild. I have learned more about quilting in the couple years since I found my guild than the 20 years previous to the guild.
We meet once a month for a sew in (basically 9am to 4 pm but we can stay longer if we want to). Everyone brings a current project to work on. I love to stroll around the room to check out what everyone else is doing. I love working on my own projects while listening to the happy voices conversing around the room. A favorite time is when someone is laying out their blocks for a quilt--then everyone gathers around to watch and offer suggestions. If you every have a sewing problem, this is the place to bring it--someone will know the answer.
Some come only for the refreshments and the business meeting which lasts about 1 1/2 hours in the afternoon. We hold 4 3-day retreats a year, do a quilt show with another quild each year, make a quilt for charity every other year and have various other activities that need to be planned. Every meeting ends with "tips and techniques" where members share short bits of information and then of course, everyone's favorite, "show and tell" where we get to admire the quilts members completed that month.
We do lots more stuff but this gives the main activities of this wonderful guild.
Donna