I recently moved to Missouri from Indiana and left my quilting buddy behind. :( However; I have free long distance and we make plans for me to call her at an appointed time and we sew for 2 or 3 hours at a time. Sometimes one of us will sew and the other one just talks. We call it our 'therapy'. We even have a web cam that we use sometimes to ask each others advice about a fabric or to show off our latest finished project. Works great for us.