Despite a lot of looking around I couldn’t find a lampshade I really liked for my living room, so I ended up buying a simple, cheap one. And then I saw this beauty in the background of the Sarah Millican Television Show:
I might buy that one at some point, but the colors don’t quite fit into my living room, and I figured I could do a simple version myself. My mom had some leftover fabrics in yellow, cream and red tones, so I bought spray-on glue, double-sided tape, one of those zig zag scissors (to cut the fabric so it won’t fray) and 2.5m of ribbon, and went to town on my existing lampshade:
The materials:
Trying out with double-sided tape:
Going to town with the spray-on glue:
Prettying it up with the ribbon (which I had to affix with tape, as the glue didn’t seem to take):
It’s obviously not perfect (I’m not good at precision work), but I like how it’s turned out – and it cost me next to nothing! (Okay, so the scissors would have cost a bit, but I was able to use points from one of those supermarket cards and got them for free.)
If the base is very plain and simple you might want to consider a shade with some decorative embellishments or color.Â
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i was googling images of patchwork lampshades and clicked on yours (very sweet) and then was over joyed to see the words ‘sarah millican show’! i didn’t know there was a ‘sarah millican show’. i love sarah millican and your lampshade so much! thank you! now i’m off to steal t.v.!
swervy
Always happy to help a fellow tv fan… 🙂
Nice shade!! The Baobab Tree made the one you saw on the Sarah Millican show and they do a bespoke service so you can request the colours that you want!
Thank you. I found the Baobab website – might order one at some point.
Interesting point… not sure I agree 100%, but that’s OK. Everyone is allowed their own opinion, right? I’ll keep checking back to see if anyone else agrees or not. Thanks!also I have a blog, hope that we can exchange