Sugary Discovery

How did I not know about this?!:

"The penny candy store elevated to an art form"
— Gourmet Magazine

Last year when my cousin was getting married and wanted to have a candy bar at her wedding, we went to this ghetto "candy warehouse" here in Jersey--clearly we should have hopped on a train and visited this place instead!

Watch the panoramic video...it looks like a little slice of old time candy store heaven...

Diaper Bags

This blog has admittedly been slowing getting off the ground, but I'm resolving to post more often about what we're up to here at dirtsa (which sometimes isn't much). To start, we've received a few Pretty Prints Diaper Bag commissions in the past few months, so madre's been busy sewing for some moms and their new babes. We try to remember to take a picture of every custom diaper bag we make, for our own records and to build up a library and give a feel for how different the bags can look depending on the fabric. Here are some of the most recent creations:

Baby Sabo

Featuring fabrics:

Covington

and

Robin

Baby McArtney

Featuring fabrics:

Spring

and

Daisy

and most recently:

Babies Arenger - Twins!

For this we used

Jellybean, which unfortunately is no longer available as a diaper bag, but can be had as a cute GPS case!

Someday we would love to offer the designer fabrics we so love (such as Amy Butler or Heather Bailey), like those we used for cousin Sarah's bag...
...but right now it's just too expensive to keep a selection of those fabrics in stock, plus they drive up the cost of the bag. But maybe when we hit the big time we can have different fabric pricepoints! For now we'll work with what we've got and hopefully the orders will keep coming in, slowly but surely...

Up next: another finished quilt (!) and a special edition fall bag that we'll be selling on etsy. Stay tuned! I promise it won't be so long between posts...

Finished!

I recently finished this quilt as a wedding gift for Becca & Randy, friends I met during my time in grad school. Becca's favorite colors are blue and brown, so it only made sense to make her quilt in those colors. It's composed of only one quilt block, repeated in all different fabric configurations.  I found the block in Susan Briscoe's Japanese Quilt Blocks to Mix and Match. It's one of the easier blocks in the book; someday I'll get around to trying the harder stuff.