I have been quilting with several ladies for 19 plus years at a local community school. We pay $45 dollars for 10 weeks. All we have to do is designate one of us a teacher and we all do our own projects and sometimes do something together like at Christmas time or other holidays. No fuss, no mess and no hard feelings. You should look into it. I used to get together one other night a week at my husbands aunts house. It started out as a lovely get together with all of us working on our own projects with tea and cake. Then the aunt resented the tea and cake time and complained that it was for quilting and not for a tea time etc so little by little it became an unpleasant expereince for all. I like the school setting I have always had with a diffrent group of friends.