Welcome to Pumpkin Patch Quilt shop, located in the beautiful Berkshires in western Massachusetts! We offer fabric, patterns, books, notions, batting, classes, quilts/bags/and more for sale, Horn cabinets, Bernina and Janome Sewing machines... and we also service sewing machines. We can help you with all of your sewing room needs!
What's New / Upcoming Events
DECEMBER SPECIAL -
Buy 5 GET 1 FREE on ALL FAT QUARTERS!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Cindy Richard will be speaking at Pumpkin Patch Quilts
43 Main St., Lee, Mass
on 19th December at 7pm.
Call the shop for more information.
Cindy, who is an award-winning author and fiber artist, will be discussing the basics of the technique she teaches, Quilted Fabric Portraits.
She will cover topics such as:
- What makes a good reference photo? How do expressions, body language and posing add to the story told by the photo?
- What is value and why is it so important in creating depth, dimension and realism?
- What fabric types work best when creating faces?
- How to make a pattern? And what are the proven tools for this technique?
- Once you have an assembled top, how do you quilt the portrait to show bone structure and the contours of a face?
Portraits in any medium bring our subjects alive so we can tell their story. Cindy challenges herself to tell her stories in fabric. Some of the stories are personal anecdotes and others have a message.
Chessmates, an example of Cindy’s work, is currently being shown at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell.
Chessmates and Caged In were awarded First Prize in the Israel Quilter’s Association, the national guild in Israel.
Join us for 2 new upcoming classes:
Sweet Seasons Quilts Workshop with Sue Pritt
(machine applique and quilting)
Saturday, September 6, 2024, 10 - 3
Perched Wallhanging Class with Karen Pratt
Quick and easy Fused Applique Wall Hanging (See Featured Pattern to the right)
Wednesdays September 11 and 25, 1-3:30 pm
$15 plus pattern
You'll also find some Christmas themed fabric and patterns beginning to appear in our shop as well!
