It seems that many quilt "guilds" are for professional quilters only. Our church has a quilt "club" and we invite people from all over town. We work (play) for 2 hours - have a potluck lunch - and sew for 2 more hours. Even some of the husbands come to watch what we're doing (and eat lunch, of course) and they sure come in handy when we need to load up our machines, etc. We certainly don't try to "convert" anyone and our members are from 60 to 89.