I just joined the Charlotte guild last night after visiting as a guest a couple times. It is a large and very active group with lots of opportunity to be involved. They have great speakers like Laura Wasilowski and Ellen Guerrant. They are hosting a huge quilting symposium at Johnson and Wales Univ. (that's the chef university!) in Charlotte in June. They've even arranged to have an artisan bread workshop with Peter Reinhart. I signed up to be a teacher's helper for Laura Wasilowski, which means I get to be at her service for the whole time she is there - couldn't pass up that opportunity!! I probably won't join any of the small groups since I live out in SC suburbs. We have a smaller guild here, but they have 70-75 people turn out at their meetings so I plan to join up there too. There's others, but they are too far away.