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| junebug |
Posted - Mar 15 2009 : 3:23:35 PM
Girls, I need help before I go bonkers! How on earth do you cover a lampshade with fabric without taking the shade apart? Does anyone know or can guide me to a how to? I'm re-doing our bedroom and instead of buying new lamps, I thought about covering ours with fabric to match the throw pillows but I'm stumped!
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| Jami |
Posted - Mar 31 2009 : 08:07:58 AM
You don't even need a pattern, June. Just lay it on the floor with the fabric wrong side up underneath the shade. Roll the lampshade from seam to seam (center back of the shade) over the fabric and first "roll" will tell you if you have enough fabric and you can center it correctly for the final "roll". You have to be careful not to bump it and keep it true but as you roll again you use a pen or pencil/chalk and make your line. Double check it all before you cut but you should be good to go. You could try newspaper first to see how it goes and if it fits. Good luck.
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| junebug |
Posted - Mar 31 2009 : 07:34:45 AM
Thanks Carrie, I'll check it out, cuz I still can't figure out how to lay it out and trace the pattern, it just doesn't work for me?
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| cinnamongirl |
Posted - Mar 29 2009 : 11:49:20 AM
Sue I found this for you hope it helps
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| junebug |
Posted - Mar 18 2009 : 12:11:11 PM
Thanks Jami, I'm going to try your method this weekend, I hope. Appreacite all the help, farmgirls are the best!
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| Jami |
Posted - Mar 17 2009 : 08:37:17 AM
Lay the lampshade over the fabric and roll it from one back seam of the shade to the other tracing the "pattern" as you go, mark on the wrong side with pen/marker/chalk pencil. If you want a sewn hem, you can add 1" to your markings on each edge and sew a hem under to the wrong side of the fabric but if you're like me, you get the glue gun and start gluing the fabric to the shade at the top edge first making sure to keep it true and straight, working your way around with a bead of glue and tack, tack, tack tucking the unhemmed edge to the inside of the shade. I usually take some bias binding and go over the edge later or some pretty trim that covers this part. Repeat on the bottom edge of the shade.
Where the raw edges meet (this will be the center back of your shade) one can be glued down and the other gets tucked under for a finished edge look.
I have covered loads of lampshades...I only use the glue gun and only glue the top and bottom edges and the center back seam. That way there is no pulling of fabric or glue marks showing on the smooth part of the shade. I vacuum them to clean with my brush attachment. Works great and I've used every fabric going.
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| quilt8305 |
Posted - Mar 16 2009 : 1:22:02 PM
JoAnn's sells lampshades that have an adhesive covering so you can use any fabric you want. The pattern is included. They are pretty inexpensive. I have also used a spray on adhesive to attach fabric to an old shade.
Mary
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| junebug |
Posted - Mar 16 2009 : 04:51:01 AM
Thanks girls! I don't want to apray paint mine, I've done that before and wasn't taken with the idea. I plan on using a spray on a adhesive for the fabric, I've seen them covered this way before. Terri, do you have any links for those videos or tutorials because I haven't been able to find any? Thanks again!
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| cinnamongirl |
Posted - Mar 15 2009 : 7:44:37 PM
I sray paint mine each time I change colors. Fabric ones have to be fire proof and I would do like a slip cover type you know elastic on top and bottom so you could slip it on. Those are my ideas hope that helps
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| 5 acre Farmgirl |
Posted - Mar 15 2009 : 5:22:56 PM
I just looked there are LOTS of places that have videos and written tutorials on How to recover a lampshade....
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Mar 15 2009 : 4:13:20 PM
Can you use fabric adhesive-something light weight or would that heat up with the bulb???
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| Nicie |
Posted - Mar 15 2009 : 3:25:17 PM
If you find out let me know. I have a great lamp but the shade that came with it is old and stained. |
