I too quilt alone since I moved to Texas. Before I had a small group of quilting friends who got together every other week to do lunch and spend the afternoon quilting. We never seemed to get much quilting done though. I also belonged to a guild there but it was very tight knit groups and was never made to feel very welcome. Shortly after moving to Texas I joined a "club" at my LQS. We met once a month but had to make the "item of the month" and I didn't enjoy haaving to make things I didn't like. Prefer now to just do my own thing.