Anniversary Sale

 Last week we were a Vendor at Virtual Quilt Canada. It was a fun experience and wonderful to interact with quilters across Canada. In conjunction with the event we also had an online sale for all our out of town customers. This week we have a sale happening instore for all our local shoppers. 

The sale will take place Wednesday June 23 - Friday June 25. We have extended the shop hours a little for the sale. 

Wednesday June 23 the shop will be open 9:00am - 5:00pm

Thursday June 24: 9:00am - 8:00pm

Friday June 25: 9:00am - 5:00pm

If you spend $50 or more instore on selected items during these 3 days you will receive 25% off those items. Fabrics, precuts, kits, notions, patterns and rulers are included the sale. 

Batting, interfacings, already discounted items and bag hardware are excluded from the discounts. 

There will be no further discounts taken off the sale price. All items are final sale. No rainchecks. Sale is instore only. 

We also have several door prizes to be won during the three days, and all eligible purchases will be entered into the Anniversary Gift Basket as well which is pictured below and is valued at over $500. 

As the AHS Restrictions will still be in place this week there will be a limit of 15 customers in the shop at one time, so there may be a line outside. We ask that you be kind to our staff and other customers. 

Masks are also still mandatory for all customers. Hand sanitizing station will be available. 

Some have complained about the lines at previous sales but we have tried other methods such as appointment shopping and online discounts and they just don't seem to work well. 

The timed shopping does not work well as some people are very quick shoppers and others like to spend more time, and if someone is done shopping and leaves we have unused space until the next time slot while others may feel rushed with the amount of time given.  

We did our online sale a week early so that we would not have to worry about over selling items in the shop. 

Have a great week, 

Kayla

June Events

 June is right around the corner, and with it our 5th Anniversary!

First off I want to say Thank You on behalf of Esther, Carrie and myself for all your support and business over the past 5 years! We have had so much fun and look forward to the future. 

We had been planning to have some instore specials the first week of June as that is our actual Anniversary, but with restrictions lifting more all the time we have decided to wait until nearer the end of the month for the sales instead. So watch for more details on that in the next few weeks. 

We have our first few Tuesday Facebook Live Videos planned out. These take place live on our Facebook Page at 10:30am and we publish the videos when we are done filming so they stay on our page. 

June 1 we will be going over our PhD projects, as well as what we have planned for the remainder of the month. 

June 8 is Moda Stitch Pink Day and we will be doing blocks 16-20 

June 15 I will be doing a little "class" / "tutorial" on a baby panel quilt, showing how to square up a panel and how to add borders not only to panels but to all your projects. 

June 17-19 we are a Vendor at Virtual Quilt Canada. We have a booth set up, will be doing some demonstrations and having some show specials. This is the first time we are a vendor of a virtual event like this so we aren't sure what to expect but we are excited to be included. 

At the end of the month we will be having our instore 5th Anniversary Sale. 

We have more fabric arriving all the time and we have been busy putting together kits and samples for the shop. 

We are also spending time getting things ready for our Sidewalk Sale in July. 

Carrie will be here on Thursday with her Garden Sampler Blocks. 

Have a great week, 

Kayla 

Ruler Demos

 Happy Monday! 

This year is our 5th anniversary as owners of Chicken Feed Quilts and we are planning to celebrate for 5 months. Last month we held our big Clearance Sale as a kickoff. It was our biggest sale ever and we thank everyone that came out and shopped. 

This month we have 5 ruler demos planned. We love our Creative Grids Rulers and so this week we will be posting videos to our Facebook Page showing how to use 5 different Creative Grids Specialty Tools. We have shown some of them at retreats but we have only featured one in our Facebook Live Videos, and that one only briefly as part of a quilt along.

The five rulers we will be doing Demos on are

Kitty Cornered

10" Log Cabin Duo

Strippy Stars

Turbo 4-Patch

Square on a Square

All 5 of these rulers are available in our shop and they can be used to make some very fun projects either by themselves or combined with other rulers! They are designed to make traditional blocks come together much easier and with most of them involving some trimming, they come out really nice each time. For most of these  rulers we have either individual patterns or pattern books for some great inspiration and we will share them in the videos as well. 

Quilt made with Strippy Stars Tool

Be sure to check out our Facebook Page every day this week to see video tutorial. 

Runner made using 8" Square on a Square Tool 

We are getting a better (we are currently using our phones and a starter microphone) videoing system set up in the next few weeks, and than we will start our own Youtube channel and start posting our videos there as well for those that like that platform better than Social Media. 

Runner made using the Turbo 4 Patch Tool 

Have a fantastic week, remember I am going down to one post per week now as our family is about to get busy with Soccer, Golf, yardwork and other spring and summer activities.

Kayla

Anniversary Sale

Happy Monday, and welcome to June! June is normally such a busy month for our shop with Quilt shows, our Anniversary, the end of classes for the season and day to day operations. 

Esther, Carrie and I will be taking part in Virtual Quilt Market this week and we also plan to have a little quilt market of our own in our classroom because we were supposed to be going to Quilt Canada in a few weeks but it was cancelled. I will do a blog post about this either Thursday or next Monday and send the information out in a newsletter in the next few days.  

We missed our big Spring Clearance Sale this year and so for our Anniversary this year we are going to have a yardage sale. It will run from June 4-24. All the yardage in the front room of our shop will be 30% off and if you finish the bolt you will get 40% off that piece. The minimum cut for the sale fabrics is 0.3meters. It is a yardage sale only, the precuts and kits will not be included in the sales. 

In case your asking yourself "Which room is the front room? The shop is like a giant maze!"

The front room is the one you walk into when you come in the North Door of our shop. It holds all our batiks, Moda and Riley Blake Solids, blenders from various companies, Essex Linens and a wide selection of collections from designers. These will all be included in the sale.

The North Door will still be locked so you will need to come in the East Door, which is the one on the side street. 

We will also still have restrictions in place on the amount of people in the shop at one time so you may need to wait your turn before coming into the store. 

Have a great week! I am excited to spend mine learning. 

Kayla