Sunday 12 June 2016

A New Craft For Me

The other evening I caught Make Craft Britain on BBC4 its a one off program, shame as it was really good.
It followed two diffrent groups that attended workshops.
One was doing paper art cutting, something I have done before and run workshops on. 
The other group were doing lampshades a craft I have always fancied having a go at.
They did freehand applique on there lampshades but it gave me an idea.
I ordered a kit from Amazon

Image result for lampshade kit 20cm 

Dug out some shot silk fabric from my stash 
I had an image in mind.
I used the  lampshade liner as template to mark on my fabric were the image was to go.

Stitched it out

Followed the instructions for the assembly of the lamp shade
It was easy to do and took about an hour start to finish.




Really really pleased with it, the lamp base was made for me by my father in law, this shade is a bit small for this lamp, I am going to make another shade the same, put them in the guest room and make another shade for this lamp.

11 comments:

  1. I saw the program both craft's I have never tried before. I love your take on the lampshade. I must admit it did get me thinking, but we do not have any lamps here.

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    1. I now have a list of lampshades to do

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  2. Wow, you work so fast. That is amazing!

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    1. the machine took 30 mins to stitch out the design and the lampshade was very quick to put together

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  3. Dawn - i love the material you chose for the lamp shade. you've mentioned your crafting cabin before - do you have pics of it? can you direct me to a post(s) that show pics of it? i'd love to see it.

    sending much love. your friend,
    kymber

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    1. This post at the start of this blog shows the inside as I was moving in to it http://mycraftylogcabin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/welcome-to-my-craft-cabin.html
      and here is a link to post on my main blog about the cabin http://doingitforourselfs.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Log%20Cabin

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  4. forget it - i just went back to your very first post and found your cabin - soooo cute!

    u no hoo

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  5. Wow-that is amazing. I really enjoyed the programme and would like to try the appliqué as a wall hanging. Catriona

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    1. I have been working on a wall hanging today but doing it by machine instead of by hand

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  6. What a beautiful lampshade Dawn. Love the colours-x-

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