Our group (not a guild and not a club) meets once a month and everyone brings their sewing machine or other hand sewing project or knitting or whatever. We only have a discussion meeting when it's near our quilt show. The library gathering space is open at 4:00 and people come as they like. About 6:30 we have show-and-tell and any other important messages. Then we can stay as long as we like. One of our ladies went home at 5:00 in the morning and met her husband going to work.