Summer Gift Party - Origami Garland by Craft Patisserie

E' il primo giorno dell'estate e siamo pronte a festeggiare ufficialmente il Summer Gift Party. In realtà noi abbiamo iniziato a festeggiare già dalla nostra iscrizione a questo swap party ideato da Lisa @ Piccolecose ed Antonella @ Blog a Cavolo. Abbiamo avuto il piacere di ammirare le bellissime ghirlande create dalle blogger partecipanti ed abbiamo aspettato con trepidazione per sapere chi sarebbe stata la nostra swap partner. Abbiamo festeggiato quando abbiamo conosciuto la simpaticissima e talentuosa Carla di Craft Patisserie. E quale emozione quando abbiamo ricevuto la sua spettacolare ghirlanda origami:

It's the first day of summer and we are ready to officially celebrate the Summer Gift Party. Actually we started having fun from when we first joined this swap party invented by Lisa @ Piccolecose and Antonella @ Blog a Cavolo. We had the pleasure of admiring the beautiful garlands made by all the bloggers who had joined and we waited with anticipation to find out who would become our swap partner. We celebrated when we met the fun and extremely talented Carla from Craft Patisserie. How exciting when we received her wonderful origami garland:

Impacchettato con cura, che gioia scoprire tutti gli incredibili dettagli dei vestitini origami. Un lavoro bellissimo, perfetto!

Wrapped up carefully, how lovely to discover all the incredible detail in the little dresses. A beautiful job, perfect!

Una domanda per Carla: ma quanti washi tape hai?! Una varietà enorme di nastri per decorare, tutti una festa per gli occhi! Adoriamo le bandierine tra un vestitino e l'altro.

A question for Carla: how many rolls of washi tape do you own?! An enormous variety of tapes to decorate, joy for our eyes! We love the little flags between the dresses.

Grazie Carla per la tua ghirlanda Summer Gift Party che già riempie la nostra casa di gioia e dolcezza. Ce ne prenderemo cura!

Thank you Carla for your Summer Gift Party Garland that fills our house with joy and sweetness. We will look after it carefully!

Ed ecco la ghirlanda che abbiamo spedito a Carla: la ghirlanda che diventa scrapbook per raccogliere i ricordi dell'estate. Le è piaciuta e noi siamo contentissime! 

And here is the garland we sent to Carla: the garland becomes a scrapbook to collect summer memories. She really liked it and we are really happy!

Speriamo che Antonella e Lisa stiano già ideando un altro divertente swap party perchè noi non vediamo l'ora di partecipare di nuovo!

We hope Antonella and Lisa are thinking of another swap party because we can't wait to join again!

I love Suzy Ultman's fabric!

Suzy Ultman's fabric: Love at first sight!

I couldn't resist Appleville:

(photo from Around the Block play mat free Pattern at Robert Kaufman)

I'm using it to make a quilt for Ella's bed. I like Appleville (the central panel) so much I'd like to cut it up and transform every "frame" into part of a mobile for a baby, but I only have just enough to make the quilt and a pillowslip Ella wanted to go with it!

After Appleville I completely fell for Little Kukla. I adore Matrioskas (or Babushkas) so how could I resist this? Impossible...

It comes in two colour ways: retro (more orange) and bright (more pink). And as if this wasn't enough, all the other fabrics of the collection are fantastic:

  

 

I've made a play mat for Lucy, that fits the bottom of her playpen (which is actually a toy deposit!), combining them with some polka dot fabric I already had in my stash. Haven't got a decent photo of it yet! For the moment I'll show you this, a Kukla garland:

When I saw the laminated version (Little Kukla slicker) I stashed that too! I'm planning on making a child's apron with it.
And now she's come out with Suzy's Dollhouse and I love this collection too!

With the panel you can make dolls: there's another free pattern at Robert Kaufman. There's one for every taste, more classic or very funky. There are twelve fabrics in this collection.

                                                                             

My favourite is this one:

I went with an Erasmus scholarship to Holland when I was at University. The Dutch are sooo friendly and they have incredible good taste, so this reminds me of Dutch houses and how I enjoyed living there. I also like architectural fabric too, which means this is another one to put on my Wish (I could buy) List, together with the whole collection!

p.s. all the photos of fabrics on this post are from Robert Kaufman.