I belong to a guild. We have a speaker each month from either a local quilt shop or a designer or someone else with information to share about a quilting project they work with. Sometimes we just have different work stations set up and play with paints, inks, stencils, colored pencils, etc. We've also had members demonstrate a specific technique, for example paper piecing. We have a library of many books you can check out to learn new things. We have a quilt show every other year, showing 500 quilts usually made just from our members. We make quilted items for charity, everything from table toppers, art quilts for wall decoration, to bed size quilts. We also have a continuing project where we make fabric bags for the Coborn Cancer Center. New patients get lots of paper info. in their bag. Other Small Groups have come out of the guild: a Featherweight Group, a Color Group, a Contemporary Group, etc. Many of our members have longarm businesses or rent out their machines for others to use. We have a fun time each month. A favorite time is Show & Tell.