Patches & Stitches

I have been doing the BOM here for 3 years and have good and bad feelings. Some of the ladies that work there are helpful and some just don’t have the time to spend on anyone. Yes there prices are a little high on some items, but then you get what you pay for. So like any other store you go into, it depends on what day it is and who deals with you.
Remember you don’t know what burdon they are carrying at that moment.

I have been to this store several times and each time I leave I tell myself to never come back again. I don’t understand why the women that work there always verge on the side of just being rude and unfriendly. The other thing that bugs me to no end is how they rip the fabric instead of using a pair of scissors or a rotary cutter. When fabric is ripped, it pulls, stretches, and distorts approximately an inch on each end of fabric leaving it unusable. It would be ok if they give a little extra fabric to compensate but they don’t!!! It’s so unfortunate that I can’t help support this local business.

Patches and Stitches is a classic quilt shop for a town the size of Huntsville. It is neither the largest nor the smallest quilt fabric store I have ever been in, but it has a niche, caters to its customers, and serves them well.
They have a good Civil War reproduction fabric area, and they usually have a pretty decent 1930s-​repro area, too. Much of the store is devoted to classic fabrics: blenders, overall prints, batiks. They have a small selection of wide backing fabrics.
They also have a lot of cross-​stitching materials, which take up half the store. I know nothing of cross-​stitching, so someone else should speak about that part of their merchandise.
Pros: they’ve got a little bit of everything. Tools, stencils, fat quarters, thread, fabric.
Cons: they’ve only got a little bit of everything. They’re not going to carry specific designers or get in the designer du jour you’re craving. If your tastes run to Amy Butler, Anna Maria Horner, Denyse Schmidt etc., they are not going to have your fabrics — you will need to look outside for them. Good, reputable basics, though? They’ve got them, and the fabrics from the bigger companies are the higher-​quality versions that only dedicated quilt shops carry. You’ll pay more, but you’ll get the GOOD stuff.
They do have a person who takes in longarm quilting projects (for a fee, obviously) so if you’re looking for a quilter, they can point you to one.
Sales are rare, maybe once or twice a year. They announce it to their mailing list first. Typically it’s a good discount but purchases have a ½-​yard minimum to get the discount, so be prepared.
They have classes, but I’ve never taken one.
They don’t have a ton of thread, which is disappointing to me. My guess is that there’s just not much of a market for it.
It’s a good shop. I try to make as many purchases there as possible, to help keep them in business, but I recognize there are some things they aren’t going to carry and will never carry, so I get those elsewhere.