Curbside Pickup

Happy Monday. How are you doing today? I must admit the snow we got here Friday night was kind of a downer for me but the sunshine today is sure improving my mood! I am so looking forward to having lunch outside on the patio again.
Today I wanted to share with you about our curbside pickup program that we are currently offering.
At the moment we cannot allow customers into our shop, which is really hard for us and I am sure for you too. We sure miss interacting with all of you, hearing your stories, and laughing with you at the good and sharing your grief in the bad news.
While we cannot currently share this way we can still provide you with the fabric and notions needed to keep on quilting.
Our online shop is open 24/7 so you can shop at anytime that works best for you, and you can do it wherever you like, you can even do it in your pjs,  convenient right?
You can view our online shop here.
Our fabric is organized into collections just like our shop is. This means that all the fabrics under that collection name were designed to work well together. I will go into more detail next week about why we organize our shop this way. 
Choose what you like or what you need, there are lots of kits, yardage, and precuts available as well as backings, and don't forget about thread, needles, blades, cutters or rulers.
When you are finished go to your cart. At the bottom of this page it will say shipping, you need to enter the province you are from before any options will pop up.
If you are local we provide Store pickup.
Just choose that option and place your order. Store pickup is free. Once your order is placed, you need to wait for the order status to change to "ready for pickup". Once it says this you can drive (or walk) on over to our shop. When you arrive (not when you are leaving your house) call us at 403 345-4048. We will ask for the name on the order, and maybe even what you purchased, we have been packaging up a lot of orders and believe it or not there are some names that are very popular, and we get multiple packages with the same first name.
After this phone call we will put your package outside in a tote on a table. This table is located on the east side of the shop. When we go back inside you are welcome to come grab your order from the tote. Please double check the name on the bag to ensure it is the correct order, sometimes we get multiple calls at the same time.
If we don't answer the first time you will need to try calling again.

If you are from out of town we can ship your order to you. We ship out nearly every day and we use Canada Post, so if you only have a Postal Box there is no worries about not getting your package. We offer free shipping on orders that are over $100 before any taxes are applied.

From every online order of $50 or more placed this week (April 13-18) we will be donating $10 to the Coaldale Food Bank. This counts for both store pickup and shipped orders.

Thursday I will share with you the first layout options for the Half Square Triangle Quilt.

The fabric in the first photo is a brand new collection by Stacy Iest Hsu called Sunday Picnic. Find it under Fabric> Moda> Stacy Iest Hsu> Sunday Picnic

Thank you again for your support!
Kayla

New Website

This past weekend if you tried to visit our shop website you would have encountered an error message. This problem has been solved, and our website is back up and running. It is a lot different than before and still has a few bugs and a lot of old pictures that need to be replaced with new ones, but we are doing our best to work out all the kinks and get it updated again as quick as we can. In fact my husband had to tell me to put my computer away last night and get some sleep, that the editing would still be waiting for me when I woke up.

The reason for a new website was that we wanted to add an online shop, and could not efficiently do it through our previous site. We have a growing number of customers from outside our local area, and we wanted to be able to provide a more efficient shopping experience that the current way of messages and photos being sent back and forth.

The shopping section is brand new to us all and although we are hoping it all goes smoothly, most things don't so I'm sure we will have some hiccups there too, but again we will sort everything out as best as we can.

Not everything that we have in our store is available yet on the website, but we had to start somewhere and in time we will get more and more of the shop uploaded with proper pictures.

One thing that is available on the site it this brand new kit that I just finished the sample for, it is a Lonestar Quilt and is strip pieced from 2.5" strips so it goes together relatively quick. It is a fun quilt to make and I love how the colors just pop off the black background. The fabrics are from Alison Glass' SunPrint Collection. You can purchase the kit here, or in store.

By the way our website address has not changed and it is still: https://www.chickenfeedquilts.com/

Kayla