My First Lampshade Redo

Wow, two hours later I am quite pleased with the way my first lampshade redo turned out.  I used a lampshade that was looking beat up, fabric and trim I had on hand and hot glue.  Oh, and, of course, the inspiration of many bloggers who have done this before like Sherry, Penny and Sonya.  I did use Sherry from Creations From My Heart’s tutorial, which I had up on my laptop as I went along. 

This is the shade I started with.  I used the iron to soften up the glue holding the top and bottom bindings on the shade so I could pull them off.  It looks even uglier at this point.

I made the pattern as Sherry mentions and cut out my fabric.  I even ironed it and I hate ironing. 

Then started gluing the pieces of fabric on one section at a time until I wound up with this.

Trimmed out the sections. 

Then trimmed out the top.  The bottom was getting a beaded trim that I’d had for a couple of years now just waiting for a project.  Then, as Sherry describes, just glue your trim over that on the bottom.

I think you can see the toile fabric better when the light is off.

Love it!  I am just so pleased with the way it turned out.  I love that it is in my craft/sewing room because I need the extra light in here and how fitting that something “creative” I made will help me in further creating!

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Kathy