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Completed lampshade

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Yesterday I completed the lampshade for my new niece. Elmsley Rose suggested using two colours for the binding, which I hadn’t thought of, and that made me think of using piping with the binding. So, thanks to Elmsley Rose, I ended up using pink binding with green piping.

I wanted the piping to be rather fine, and learned that of the three shops locally where I can get piping cord, only one has the 00 cord that I wanted! Not many people must want such fine piping. I just felt that because it was for a baby’s room, I didn’t want it to be heavy and chunky! And the rest of the design is very delicate, so light and fine suited much better.

The lampshade turned out well, and I’m very happy with it. I hope my six week old niece likes it too. 🙂 I’m sure she’ll form an opinion immediately!

December 16th, 2010 | Category: making stuff

11 comments to Completed lampshade

  • Jennifer
    December 16, 2010 at 10:14 am

    That’s really gorgeous!

  • yvette
    December 16, 2010 at 10:21 am

    Thanks Jennifer!

  • Janie Hubble
    December 16, 2010 at 10:51 am

    This is just gorgeous Yvette. I’m sure your neice will love it the minute she sees it.

  • yvette
    December 16, 2010 at 11:39 am

    Thanks Janie. Being only 6 weeks old, I’m not sure that she has that capacity just yet… 😉

  • Linda Marchand
    December 16, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    The lampshade is just beautiful!!

  • yvette
    December 16, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    Thanks Linda!

  • Rachel
    December 16, 2010 at 9:06 pm

    It’s lovely, and the trim is just right!

  • Elmsley Rose
    December 17, 2010 at 2:53 am

    Cool! I feel really special now!
    I’m really glad that you liked my idea 🙂

  • yvette
    December 17, 2010 at 6:15 am

    I loved your idea! It really inspired me!

  • yvette
    December 17, 2010 at 6:16 am

    Thanks Rachel!

  • Sarah
    December 20, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    That lampshade is fabulous! I love how the butterflies turned out.

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