Purple Katz Quilting - Rimbey

My favourite place to shop for fabric and bag making supplies!! You are treated awesome!!

Great service in online orders and assistance in a new machine purchase.

Excellent customer service, fast shipping and great options! I look forward to visiting in person some day!

It was a great show. The quilts were awesome and so well done. My shopping experience was great as usual.

Such a great place to shop even in these Covid times! I needed some fabric for a quilt I was working on and Tracy the owner was so super helpful and even let me virtual shop!!! Such a fantastic selection of ‘Wow’ fabrics and great knowledge of all things quilting! Thank you! ?

I had to go to Rimbey on business, seen a quilt store and thought great, I'll stop on my way home and get what I need. The door was locked and I was told unless you had an appointment you couldn't come in. OK I didnt know. The store was empty so I asked if I could come in anyway....... The employees were very cold and made it like I was infected, or not good enough to enter. It was even suggested I go somewhere else to shop. I understand that we all should be careful in these trying times, but no reason to be treated like that. But thanks for suggesting to go elsewhere.... I found perfect fabric for my next quilt. So much for shopping local.

I love this shop with their warm welcome, bright colours, and endless ideas and energy. I started quilting at 19 years old, I travelled to many quilt shops and unfortunately being young I didn’t feel like I was taken seriously until I met Tracey the owner of purple Katz! She swept me up and under her wing, she educated me and brought me into the quilting community and introduced me to so many wonderful quilters, without her and purple Katz quilting I don’t think I’d be so lucky to be in the quilting community today and I can’t give enough thanks to her and the Katz family!!

I am review based on my experience as an out of town shopper (Calgary) who has yet to actually step foot in the store. On three occasions I have attempted to shop here and the business has been closed, which is contrary to both the storefront signage and google page info. The first time we found out in advance of driving, but were wanting to stop and on two other occasions I came to shop, only to find the store not open. According the the website they are open by appointment, but when you call the phone number no one answers and the email doesn’t get read either. I recommend calling the shop in advance of driving there because I have now shown up in Rimbey on two non-quilt related occasions with the desire to shop only to find the door locked, “OPEN” sign lite up, notice that they are open by appointment only, and no response to either forms of communication types listed on the website. The website also says that they will reopen on April 20th, after the being closed for the Easter weekend….they in fact are not open at all! It’s frustrating to see a great instagram and digital store only to show up at the shop and not be able to step foot inside. While I appreciate it can be difficult to keep google listings up-to-date, if you are truly an “appointment only” business perhaps that should be listed on google as well as contact information that will get a response.