"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.
We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty."
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Ruffled Lampshade

This is one of my entries for the Ruffle Your Stuff and Win contest. I love challenges and contests! Here's what I did.

 I found this lampshade at the thrift store a while back (loved the shape of it) pulled it out of the closet.

found the spool of my favorite crinkled brown ribbon and cut strips twice as long as the lampshade is tall.

It was wired ribbon, so I pulled out the wire, then sewed down the middle of each piece with a gather stitch.

Next I pulled out the glue gun and glued the ribbon from top to bottom of the shade. I found it easier to put the glue on the shade and press the ribbon to the glue line along the gathered seam.


I like the way it turned out. Check out some of my other lampshade makeovers here.
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2 comments:

  1. Loving this shade..wow..not off to see the rest.
    thanks for sharing it and the how to also.
    tammy

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  2. very very cute! love this idea.

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