Thirfty Lamp

BEFORE

AFTER
I wish I could remember what craft blog I saw this idea from! Instead of using all ribbon I mixed in cotton fabric, ribbon, and tulle!
EASY AS PIE!
You have to measure the length of whatever you're going to tie, depending on your lamp shade. For this lamp the strips of fabric and such had to be 21 inches long. Oh and paint that base....
Done.

TUTU!

First off I don't suggest you dress your son's in tutu's. He's being a model for our niece.
Depending on how puffy and full you want your tu tu, I used about 3-4 yards of each color.
Now tulle can be a pain in the butt to cut, so I fold fold fold fold, that way I just make a quick cut into strips about 2 inches wide.
Like so
Buy an elastic band, measure to the waist, and sew the ends together.
fold the strip in half, hold the "bend" on your right hand, and the tails in your left hand.
Put the fold and tails underneath the elastic waist. Like so
Pull the tails through the "bend" or fold in the fabric.
Keep doing this over and over and over and over again, til you fill up the elastic strip
Should look fantastic. Enjoy!

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t shirt flower clip

Here it is!
Take an old T shirt you don't ever wear, that sits in your closet day after daying, begging to be made into something useful. Cut 2 strips.
13 inches long and about 2 inches wide, lay flat on top of each other.
Take a needle and thread and start threading through the center of both strips in a straight (ish) line.
When you get to the end, pull the string tight, that way it scrunches.
Wrap into a circle.
Take the two "raw" ends fold togther and whip stitch.
Should look like this.
Find spare fabric (left over from project before. Make sure the circle is smaller than "Pedal" and add a brad.
Take a piece of felt and hot glue onto the back, mine felt flimsy til I did this.
Flip over and hot glue the "cute" fabric and brad onto the front.
Add an alligator clip to the back, hot glue onto the felt. WA LA!

FLOWER, again.

This is made the same as the "floppy flower" only even more light and fluffy fabric.

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"Floppy" fabric flower

For this project make sure you use "floppy" fabric. Seriously. Floppy only.

I used a piece of fabric about 11x50 inches.

Then fold like an acordian.

Then I decided, to cut it in half...
Cut into a circle, DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PERFECT CIRCLES.
Find the middle of one circle, and thread with need and thread.
Keep adding more and more "pedals"
When you've finished threading all of them on, make a circle, and tie off.
Use and alligator clip (I cover mine with hot glue and ribbon)
Hot glue your flower to the clip
Find a head band, or whatever you want to decorate with.
And there you have it!