• Welcome
• + About Us
  • A Letter from the Owner
  • Our History
  • Take a Stroll
• + Exhibits
  • June 2013 - Joan Carpenter
  • May 2013 - Quilts of Valor
  • April 2013 - Terry Crean
• CSC on the Road
• In Our Neighborhood
• Class Calendar
• + Martha Pullen Heirloom Sewing
  • Martha Pullen Fabric and Lace
  • Martha Pullen Heirloom Sewing
  • Martha Pullen Gift of the Month
• + For Quilters
  • Holice Turnbow
  • Quilting Services
• + Fabrics and Notions
  • Fabric
  • Threads and Fibers
  • Wool
  • New Products
• + Craft Business of the Month
  • Bonnie's Hand Free Bags
  • And Then There Was Glass
  • Angela's Ink Link
  • Sign-up To Be Featured
• Recipes and Reflections
• Discount Calendar
• Directions
• Links of Interest
• Area Sewing Shops

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Founded as The Simple Machine in 1979 by the Racine Family, the Charlton Sewing Center is now located in a 110 year old New England church, one of the most beautiful and historic church structures in Worcester County. The main Charlton Sewing Center floor of this building offers customers a gift shop, fabric and book store, huge thread inventory housed in the former Choir Loft, and antique sewing machines within its 2,100 square feet of retail space. Each month a different sewing exhibit is on display set among the stained glass windows and the original pipe organ.

We welcome you to browse our large selection of fabrics, threads, fiber embellishing materials, sewing notions and more.

Inside this beautiful historic building, Charlton Sewing Center is pleased to offer BERNINA, Elna, Necchi, and Pfaff sewing machines. Whether you are interested in machine embroidery, garment sewing, quilting or fiber arts, we'd be glad to offer our assistance in selecting the best machine and materials for your sewing projects.

We offer both new and used sewing machines and we will assist you in finding your perfect sewing machine. We will help you understand the different machines available to suit your needs and let you "test drive" our machines so that you can find the best sewing machine or serger for your use.

After you have chosen your machine, we offer classes and one-on-one training so that you can fully enjoy all of your machine's features and be able to properly care for your sewing machine.

Additionally, we offer classes in quilting, fashion sewing, machine embroidery and more. Our serger retreat is very popular as well.

With over 30 years of technical repair experience the Charlton Sewing Center's technician offers onsite sewing machine and serger repair. The technician is factory trained in Pfaff, BERNINA, Elan and Handiquilter long arm quilting machines and provides quality services to all makes and models.

The Charlton Sewing Center offers sewing classes for children and teens many times during the week. We also offer mother/daughter sewing classes and classes for home schoolers. Call to speak to a teacher and schedule your class today!

Check our website regularly for new classes, events and exhibits. Please stop by for a cup of tea with us!