Feeling left out.
04-29-2010, 07:59 AM
#42
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: north east
Posts: 8,394
Originally Posted by stitchinwitch
What is going on? This is the second post I read this morning about rude quilters!! I really didn't realize there was such a thing! Even my hubby mentioned always meeting happy friendly quilters, and now this?? Is it another "sign of the time we live in now?"
04-29-2010, 09:15 AM
#43
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: So. California
Posts: 3,769
Wow, I'm am sorry to hear that you were treated so poorly at the guild meeting! I've belonged to my guild since it was started, and I just enjoy the heck out of it! I know that it can be intimidating for someone coming in for the first time, but we do have members that look out for our visitors & newbies, and we try to make sure everyone feels welcome.
Yes, we do have that boring "meeting" stuff at every meeting, but we also have speakers 9 or 10 times a year. The few times we have no speaker, it's usually the holiday party or potluck time! We have amazing Show & Tell every month too - one of the best parts for me. :D
And bragging on my guild a bit more, a number of our speakers have complimented us on how friendly we are too. :wink:
There are about 80 guilds in the So. California area, so if you're here, you have a lot to choose from. If one doesn't feel right, try the next one!
Yes, we do have that boring "meeting" stuff at every meeting, but we also have speakers 9 or 10 times a year. The few times we have no speaker, it's usually the holiday party or potluck time! We have amazing Show & Tell every month too - one of the best parts for me. :D
And bragging on my guild a bit more, a number of our speakers have complimented us on how friendly we are too. :wink:
There are about 80 guilds in the So. California area, so if you're here, you have a lot to choose from. If one doesn't feel right, try the next one!
04-29-2010, 09:36 AM
#45
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Pine Grove, California
Posts: 2,816
Originally Posted by mygirl66
Now I kinda feel out of place! I still have my first sewing machine,(and still use) a Brother with about 10 different stiches, and all quilting is done by hand. :cry: LOL
Please don't feel out of place. I just have a "baby" Janome, it does just a few stitches and has none of the bells and whistles of the fancier machines. But, you know what? It does everything "I" want it to do and that's all that matters to me.
(and this machine, mind you, was a step up from my Mother's old White machine----despite getting it "fixed", etc. it would never maintain consistant tension..........)
04-29-2010, 09:40 AM
#47
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Out searching for some sunshine :-)
Posts: 58,856
Originally Posted by mygirl66
Now I kinda feel out of place! I still have my first sewing machine,(and still use) a Brother with about 10 different stiches, and all quilting is done by hand. :cry: LOL
04-29-2010, 09:46 AM
#48
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Okanagan, BC Canada
Posts: 210
I have a feeling that my quilt guild is very elitist, if the attitudes at the local quilt store are any indication. I won't even bother finding out if that's so. I have work friends that quilt and so I talk to them about quilt stuff.
Evelyn
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04-29-2010, 10:00 AM
#49
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 4,564
Originally Posted by kwhite
I have not been in a Guild for years, but I have a mean streak that needs to be satisfied every now and again. Putting a few of these "ladies" in their place in front all of the other biddies would warm the cockles of my heart. I was asked to move once at a bingo when I took my ailing mother. I was told "Angie sits there and she will be pissed if you sit there too. You better move before Angie gets here." I told her I am not moving and you just leave Angie to me. I think the whole room just sat and waited for Angies arrival to see the explosion. Well long story short, Angie invited me to come back and sit with her any time. But I would not have hesitated to let Angie have it too if she gave me tude!!! Life is way too short to go through life pushing people around. I subscribe to "live and let live" but if you can't do that I will be a big pot hole in your ugly road.
04-29-2010, 10:02 AM
#50
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 276
I was a member of our local quilt guild and volunteered to editor the newsletter. (Never have a margarita before going to a meeting--LOL) I did the newsletter for 2 years. I had a few very nice thank yous, lots of complaints and zero offers to help me. At the end of the two years at the annual guild business meeting one of the members accused the treasurer and myself of taking money from the guild, even though we had receipts for every expenditure. That was the last meeting I attended. Haven't missed it, but very glad I stumbled on this board a couple of months ago.
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