I have met alot of my qulting friends through visits to the quilt shops. Talk with the gals that are shopping in the shops. Amazing how many of them need a friend to quilt with.
I live in a town where alot of the gals were born and raised and have their own little groups but more of us are moving in. I have been here 32 years now and have gotten to knwo alot of the people. I hate snobs so as I always say "I am the birtch that will make one of the snobs talk to me come hell ot high water." They find out that they aren't any better then we new comers are. Amazing how they finally decide to be friendly to the newcomers. They learn that we can have good ideas also, not just them. We have one gal in our guild who has quit because she thought I was taking over her preemee quilt project when all I did was suggest a workshop to make more preemee quilts so that she had more to send out. Well she tried to ignore me but I talked to her as if nothing had happened. Guess who is off her high horse now. I just can't stand people who are like that but I just have to talk to them to make a point.