Quilt guild???
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Carencro LA
Posts: 304
By all means, go! Most guilds let you attend one meeting as a guest anyway, and since you've already sent in your dues, you're officially a member, although they're probably holding the check until you've been to your first meeting.
Make sure you talk to the membership person when you arrive.
Make sure you talk to the membership person when you arrive.
#13
I was contemplating becoming a member of the local quilt guild. Three weeks ago I sent them an e-mail as well as application and membership payment by snail mail. I heard nothing from them. Don't get me wrong, QB is great, but I would like to be a part of guild as well since no one I know quilts. Today is their meeting. What do I do? Can I just show up? I hope there are some experienced guild members here that can tell me if that would be OK. I am a patient person, but three weeks is a long time not to reply to an e-mail. What do you think?
#17
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: central indiana
Posts: 686
Guilds are fully manned by volunteers, some more tech savvy than others. We are in transition in both guilds from one set of officers to another and even membership is in transition. Please do not expect them to be as organized as a business and show some patience with your potential fellow guild members.
I have never joined without going to one or a couple of meetings as a guest to see how the "flow" feels and whether the group does the kinds of things i am interested in. I am now the logo chairperson in one and hospitality in another. Working my way up from the bottom.
I have never joined without going to one or a couple of meetings as a guest to see how the "flow" feels and whether the group does the kinds of things i am interested in. I am now the logo chairperson in one and hospitality in another. Working my way up from the bottom.
#18
Banned
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Keene, New Hampshire
Posts: 4,211
Go to the meeting
Most Guilds get their mail through a P.O. box and it's not usually picked up regularly
Give it 2 or 3 shots before giving up on it.
I went to a Guild mtg when I first moved to NH - no one was friendly, but I kept going because I was new to NH and knew not a soul. At least here there were faces that began to look familiar and I got to be inspired and motivated by seeing the work of others.
Gals began talking to me after a couple of meetings and I have made several serious life-long friends.
I even went on to be President of the Guild for 6 years.
Most Guilds get their mail through a P.O. box and it's not usually picked up regularly
Give it 2 or 3 shots before giving up on it.
I went to a Guild mtg when I first moved to NH - no one was friendly, but I kept going because I was new to NH and knew not a soul. At least here there were faces that began to look familiar and I got to be inspired and motivated by seeing the work of others.
Gals began talking to me after a couple of meetings and I have made several serious life-long friends.
I even went on to be President of the Guild for 6 years.
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