Glad to hear that people were friendly! I love my guild--we are a rural county and it's a county-wide guild--so 150+ members. We have both a morning and an evening meeting--both business,with featured BOM, show & tell, etc. sometimes a formal demo/program, sometimes not really. We have workshops, quilt days, special events, etc. Ages are mostly older (50+) women but what I like is we even have some teens involved! I was recruited to be a committee chair fairly quickly after joining (and learning to quilt) and have found that to be a great way to "settle in" to the guild--really meet people that way! Are there some cliques--sure--partly based on old friendships, neighbors, go to same church, kids are in classes together, etc. But not real exclusionary and I think it's fairly normal that when you go to a meeting you tend to associate with those that you have another thing in common with.