Friday 14 December 2018

A further crafting day


Yesterday the other sewing group I belong to run by Dawn McHugh over at Being Self Sufficient in Wales met at Dawn's and learned how to make a lampshade.  I was utilising the top/bottom rings of an old 1970s shade which was brittle and falling to bits, so Dawn helped me to cut out another former for mine.  The crazy patchwork has used beautiful Japanese silk scraps sent to me by Elaine over at Tales from Parsonage Wood.  

It was relatively easy (if a tad fiddly) to stick the shade to the rings, and then fasten the top and bottom edges with narrow glued strips and we all felt confident afterwards that we could go and do another.  It was great fun and we stopped for lunch in the middle - a 3 course Christmas meal - which had been beautifully made by Dawn - part of the starter was herbed cheese balls preserved in olive oil and they were amazing.  The Water Buffalo we had as our main course was absolutely melt-in-the-mouth. 



Here is Dawn's lovely seasonal lampshade, which was made using her embroidery machine.


This is Sue's lovely shade, with the flowers and leaves also made on her embroidery sewing machine.


Finally Salli's colourful shade which would go anywhere - I love those cheerful blooms.


Dawn's craft cabin is wonderfully well stocked and so tidy, and a joy to work in.  At the end of the session we discussed all sorts of other wonderful crafts to try next year in our monthly get-togethers.


So many things to try - so little time!  Many thanks to Dawn for hosting this.

10 comments:

  1. Lovely! All the lampshades beautiful.

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  2. Lovely lampshades you all made. I really like the bright print one the best. Though those shades made with help from the embroidery machines have me thinking.....

    God bless.

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    1. I think that was probably the easiest one to construct too, as just one unadorned piece of fabric. Mine was tricky as I sewed my crazy patchwork onto another piece of fabric and it needed to be a tad wider ideally and NOT lined another time.

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  3. The lampshades are beautiful but they look bigger on the top and smaller on the bottom. I am confused.
    They are very lovely.

    cheers, parsnip and badger

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    1. I think it's just the angle I took the photos parsnip. They were same-sized rings. Rolling them onto the sticky stuff top and bottom together was fun!!

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  4. So very, very tidy Dawn's craft room, what a wonderful place to work in. Loved all the lampshades, had a go on an embroidery machine a couple of weeks ago - they are so clever. Had a xmas card from Em yesterday, really miss her blog.

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  5. Isn't it, and so well stocked. She used to own a craft shop so as you can imagine, has a lot of stuff from there. The idea of the embroidery machine is a great one - Dawn has thousands and thousands of designs on disc, but it's not for me.

    I miss Em's blog too, and also had a card - which has reminded me Eeek - I need to post her one too!! Been so busy . . .

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  6. The lampshades are all so lovely. The craft cabin looks superb - oh to have a place like that for all my books and craft etc. items!!

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  7. I have craft cabin envy - not that I could ever be that organised. What a brilliant place!

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