Merri Stitches
Portsmouth, New Hampshire · Since 2001
A full-service Portsmouth sewing center since 2001, offering an eclectic mix of quilting, garment, and bag-making classes.
Merri Stitches has been a full-service sewing center in Portsmouth since 2001, and "full-service" is doing real work in that description — they're a Husqvarna Viking and Janome dealer, they sell longarm machines, and they handle service and training on top of it, so a machine bought here comes with somewhere to actually learn to use it.
The class calendar is deliberately eclectic: quilting alongside garment sewing and bag-making, which means this isn't a shop that assumes every customer only wants to piece quilt blocks. If you sew clothes as often as you quilt, or want to branch into bags, the classes here cover more ground than a typical quilt-only shop.
Two decades-plus in the same city is a good sign on its own, and the range of what they teach and sell backs it up — this is a shop for sewists broadly, not just quilters narrowly.
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Merri Stitches is located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Merri Stitches is known for Husqvarna Viking & Janome dealer, quilting & garment classes, longarm machine sales, among other things.
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Merri Stitches has been in business since 2001.
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