We have an informal group, with lots of talking and eating. Everyone brings a dish to the meeting, with a theme suggested either by a member or the time of year... Holiday memories, movie food, etc. We have a group project. Once we all made string blocks, of a color we drew from a basket, then we swapped, so each of us had one of each color. We also had a movie challenge, drew an envelope that had a movie with a "color" title and a crayon. The movie title and the crayon determined the colors of the quilt. Mine was an I Spy with Goldfinger for the movie and strawberry red for the crayon. We did a pizza box, where each person got a pizza box with 1/2 yard of a focus fabric in it. We passed it around for 12 months, and each person made one block using some of the focus fabric. At the end we drew numbers to see who would get which pizza box filled with 12 quilt blocks. We have show and tell. We laugh and share with each other. No minutes, no money, no officers... no Roberts Rules of Order. The other meeting we have each month is a sit and sew, we do have money there.... $5 for contribution to the pizza order. During that meeting we can sew on whatever we want, but most of us work on the quilts our group donates to CASA, for the children that have been removed from their homes due to abuse or violence. The CASA workers tell us that the quilts are loved and appreciated. We bring strips every month for a strip drawing, writing our names in the selvedge, and someone draws. The winner gets all the strips and determines the color of the strips for the next month. Thus, our name - The Red Hot Friday Night Strippers. We are just about to draw for secret sisters, for the holiday season, and start a 6 month mystery quilt project. It is wonderful. I treasure the meetings and my fellow strippers.....