I belong to the Never Sweat Needlers Quilt guild of Dubois. It been a great thing everyone is very helpful and we put on a very nice Quilt Show every year in August.We have classes and different things we do as a group. A bunch of us are or have made quilts for quiltsforkids.org. We've a group of 40 which is a lot for our small town.

By all means, join a guild if possible. I belong to a small guild in Lee's Summit, MO. We meet at night so those who work and those who don't can attend. Along with speakers and quilt shows, we have a sew Saturday four times a year. I have learned more from those sew Saturdays then from the books I have read and the classes I have taken. Marylou

I belong to the Austin Area Quilt Guild in Austin, Tx. It is a very large quild that meets on the first Monday night of the month and on Monday morning once a quarter. I travel 65 miles (each way) to attend the meetings and love every minute of it. I joined this guild about 30 years ago when I lived in the Austin Area. When I moved to the Texas hill country, I kept my membership there because it was the closest guild. I love to take classes and take as many as I can work in. I enjoy the speakers who present our programs. I have learned many new techniques. Just got home from the Houston Quilt Show. I had a great time and enjoyed meeting and visiting with other quilters.

I belong to Mid-Del Stitchin' Sisters Quilt Guild in Midwest City, Oklahoma. We have approximately 85 members. We do a lot of charity quilting for local police and fire departments, women and children shelters and currently we're working on quilts for soldiers in Oklahoma that have been wounded in Iraq/Afghanistan and for families of soldiers from Oklahoma who have given their lives defending our country in these countries.

I belong to the Flying Geese Quilt Guild of Harford County maryland. We are 250 members strong. Meet at night and have 4 Bee meetings: Goslings (new members), Mystery Bee, Wednesday Day and Friday night. We host speakers 9 meetings a year (third Monday of the month is the general meeting). One year we even hosted Ricky Tims. This was before he became really BIG. Most of the times the speaker does a workshop on the Tuesday during the day after the evening program. We have a quilt bingo every other year and a show every other year. I have been quilting about 10 years.

I belong to the Towpath Quilt Guild in central NY. Joined in 2006. I absolutely love it. We have a fairly large membership of about 100. One of the best percs is that I have had the opportunity to hear lectures and take classes from renowned, published quilters (Linda Taylor and Sue Nichols, just to name a few). It is a very generous and talented group of quilters. I'm always in awe when we have Show & Tell. I like the fact that our members are from novice to expert and no one is ever made to feel "unworthy". On the contrary; No matter how humble my quilting may seem to me (in comparison with the rest), I always walk away feeling like an accomplished quilter. My guild usually does several different service projects every year. This year, we are working on children's quilts to donate to a brand new perdiatric medical center that has just been built. In the past we have donated charity quilts to the military, nursing homes, rape crisis center, Linus Project, pillow cases to battered women shelter, placemats for Meals on Wheels program, school bags to under priveledged children in third world countries. Our guild puts on a big show every two years. To read more about us, visit:
http://www.towpathquiltguild.org/

I belong to the Cotton Patch Quilters of Kern in Bakersfield, CA. We have almost 300 members. There is another guild in Tehachapi, which is about 50 miles from here in the mountains. I don't know how many members they have. We do a quilt show every other January, do bus trips to big quilt shows in CA (Road to CA, Long Beach, Glendale), participate in many local quilt shows in the CA Central Valley, have an opportunity quilt for each of our quilt shows. We do charity quilts for NICU units in our local hospitals, and for the Painted Turtle Camps for ill children. We have friendship groups (but you generally have to be invited to join one), block of the month, show and tell, raffle table, name tag drawing at each meeting. We have really great teachers and workshops about 9 months out of the year...in November we get Pat Knoeckel!! So excited..she always brings great techniques from Eleanor Burns's workshops. We also have both day and evening meetings to accommodate the working people. We have a couple of men members, too. Overall I really like it..everyone is supportive and helpful. Here's the link to our website...we just updated it over the summer and we really like it. http://www.bakersfieldquiltguild.org/

I belong to the Flying Geese Quilt Guild in Bel Air, Maryland. We celebrated its 20th Anniversary this month. I have been a member for four years and have enjoyed learning, making new friends, helping with the Month of Love which involves making pillows for breast cancer patients, quilts for the military, quilt bingo, quilt show, Linus quilts, and much more. We also give monies to different charities. They have weekend retreats of quilting.

We also have great presentators and the next day they teach some of their techniques. My friend and I are in charge of the Goslings which meets the first Monday of each month. Someone in the guild volunteers to teach a new technique or she or I teach something that we have found on the internet or in a quilt magazine. The Goslings started out for new members, but everyone is invited.

This guild started with in l989 with 5 ladies then 12 and then into a guild with almost 200 members. We meet at the local volunteer fire station on the 3rd Monday of each month.


Barbara, the golfer

Lass,

I am a member of the Flying Geese Quilt Guild. Marge and I are in charge of the Goslings. We must introduce ourselves to one another next meeting.

Barbara

Lass,

I am a member of the Flying Geese Quilt Guild. Marge and I are in charge of the Goslings. We must introduce ourselves to one another next meeting.

Barbara