Classroom Update

On March 25 the renovation on our classroom began. Since that day it has undergone a vast transformation. The walls were framed in, drywalled, and painted. We got a real ceiling hung just this past weekend, and today Hermans Carpets laid down a new floor us today. We are also getting more lighting installed by Live Electric so the area will be nice and bright.
Esther and I had the opportunity to design a custom studio for the space as well and this will get installed by Adora tomorrow. We have a nice cutting table to do demos and our own cutting on. We have a custom ironing station that will fit our monster wool pressing mat, which measures 22"x60". There is lots of extra counter space for us to have our most used notions at our finger tips, and customized storage for those that are a little more specialized and for projects.
For the new classroom we have new chairs and new sewing tables that are nice and sturdy, as well as 3 designated counter height cutting tables and 3 ironing stations that will also have wool mats and Oliso irons for you to use.
There are a few more things that have been added but we will be having a big reveal on May 9 and 10, so you will have to come check it out than to get the full picture.
This weekend we have our Bionic Gear Bag Workshop, and I will post a recap of it on Friday Evening.
On Saturday, Chicken Feed Quilts will be featured on Instagram for The Great Canadian Shop Hop that began at the start of the month. If you are on Instagram be sure to follow us.
As mentioned on May 9 and 10 we will have our Classroom Reveal Party. There will be snacks and demos in our newly renovated classroom and some flash sales as well, so come check out our new space and learn about some of our favorite tools.
Also in May, Esther and I will be attending the Spring Quilt Market, which this time around is being held in Kansas City. We hope to also visit the Missouri Star Quilt Company while we are there. I love attending Quilt Market and always come home with so many new ideas and inspiration for the shop and new projects.
In June we have another information presentation planned and will I post more information about it in a few weeks. Also in June is the Lethbridge Festival of Quilts, which is a Quilt Show put on by the Lethbridge Centennial Quilters Guild with lots of quilts to see and vendor booths to shop at. We will have a booth there during the event.
These next two months are looking to be busy for us again, but I must say I love every bit of it.
This week is Easter Break for my boys, and I have spent the last few days hanging out with them at home, getting them to help with some spring cleaning (we cleaned the deep freezer out today) and doing some sewing, my oldest made himself a pillowcase today, and now my 5 year old is asking when he gets to make one.
Hope to see you at all some of these upcoming events,
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