I have belonged to several guilds, One small one, we had lots of fun and folks accepted you. One large and the were not all that friendly, had their cliques. Now meet once a month witm my sis and quilt and once a month with cousins and friend and it is nice. I am thinking about joinging our state guild again because they have a 3 day retreat that in the fall that is great and have excellent teachers. I belong to a Long Arm Guild right now and it has taken me about a year to get acquainted, some guilds are funny that way.