Saturday, 26 March 2011

White felt lampshade cover

I've been promising Heather for ages that I'd get round to making a white felt lampshade cover after she shared hers, and I did make the felt about a week ago, but I only got around to sewing it the other day. I handspun some thin white yarn to hem the top and sew the seam, but I left the natural edge along the bottom.
I'm wishing I placed some locks over the edge now.

The bottom is a thin layer of 18.5 mic natural white merino, then there's a thin layer of 23 mic natural white merino. The 3rd layer is lots of different natural coloured locks and curls-Mohair, Wensleydale, Angora, Teeswater, Bluefaced Leicester, and some wool nepps too. The top thin layer has natural Merino, Devon, Romney and Texel tops, topped with silk, ramie, bamboo, Teeswater, Mohair, soya bean fibre and silk noil. There's a few bits of vegetable matter in there too :)


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9 comments:

  1. Kelly26 March 2011 at 12:42

    I have just the place for a lamp like this! I see this as a project in the very near future. I love how the textures of the wool comes through when the light is turned on!

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  2. Ginny Huber26 March 2011 at 15:37

    This is lovely and so wonderfully textured. What afien combination of fibers you chose and they look so good illuminated!

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  3. martine26 March 2011 at 22:24

    That's wonderful, am so inspired as i have been wanting new shades for my hall and landing. I really love the mixture of neutral shades.
    thanks for sharing
    martine

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  4. Unknown27 March 2011 at 03:47

    This is really beautiful zed and i cant believe how many different sorts of fibre's you use, amazing :)

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  5. Zed27 March 2011 at 11:12

    Thanks, Kelly, Ginny, Martine and Kaz! :)

    I get all my wool tops and scoured wool from World of Wool, Kaz. They're only about £1.40 for 100g, and pieces like this use barely anything so they last a long time.
    Then I can splash out a bit on fancy locks like Teeswater :)

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  6. Tracy Markey27 March 2011 at 13:58

    this is lovely! i love the way that the whole lampshade changes when the light is on and you can see all the lovely textures :)

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  7. Heather Woollove31 March 2011 at 02:32

    Oooooh...brilliant!!! I'm so happy to see your finished lamp shade! XXOOOO-

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  8. Angela17 April 2011 at 07:32

    Nothing to stop you sewing a few locks on now but it looks lovely without them

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  9. Zed3 August 2011 at 10:20

    Thanks Tracy, Heather and Angela :)

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