Our guild had the program chairman quit mid year because he didn't have anything planned, so we had to do some 'quick" ideas. Our guild has about 100 members and about 80 attend each meeting. Last month we did a wool project. Most of us have not done wool. We made a book mark or you could make a sewing kit for needles. It was fun, we sat 8 at a table. We had a simple pattern and the supplies provided. It was a lot of fun.
This month we are doing demo night with 4 stations and we will alternate between them. One is tools from the $ store, free motion quilting ideas, doing machine applique and maintaining your sewing machine. One meeting we did quilt trivia. We had a local quilt show do a trunk show. Try to hit a variety of skill levels and of interests. I did it for 2 years for our guild and had a lot of un doing it.