Our guild does "pizza days" at a local church.... we each pay $10 and there's approx 30 of us..... after the rent, there's enough $$ to purchase pizzas for dinner. We arrive at about 9 and bring our own lunch..teas, coffees, etc. are provided. My favourite ones have been when one of our guild members has prepared "scrapbusters" for us. She has done samples of many blocks....asked us to precut certain sizes and colours and we each make blocks at the church....then lay them all out together to make a quilt. Sometimes this is sewn into a community(charity) quilt....sometimes the blocks are taken home for future reference. Of course you need a dedicated person to search out tons of scrappy blocks on the internet or in magazines, and willing to share her knowledge.