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    Lampshade Inspiration - Making lampshades on a budget
    • May 6
    • 3 min

    Lampshade Inspiration - Making lampshades on a budget

    Making or crafting is a fantastic way to achieve a look on a budget and is guaranteed to be a purse-friendly alternative to shop-bought,...
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    Lampshade Inspiration - Going Large with Lampshades
    • Apr 19
    • 5 min

    Lampshade Inspiration - Going Large with Lampshades

    The upshot of making a super-sized lampshade is not only the wow factor but the huge surface area that you need to cover to make up the...
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    5 Fantastic Family Craft Projects To Make For Easter
    • Apr 7
    • 3 min

    5 Fantastic Family Craft Projects To Make For Easter

    Easter is a fantastic excuse to get out the craft kit and do some family making. We've got 5 fantastic ideas to keep kids, and grown-ups...
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    Mother’s Day Gift Idea - Make a Pamper Hamper with a Sewing Bin Kit
    • Mar 4
    • 2 min

    Mother’s Day Gift Idea - Make a Pamper Hamper with a Sewing Bin Kit

    Showing your mum or someone you hold dear how much you love them is what Mother’s Day is all about and to celebrate we’ve turned our...
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    New Products - Macrame Making Materials
    • Jan 13
    • 3 min

    New Products - Macrame Making Materials

    Macrame is no longer a craft that belongs in the seventies and with its hugely popular revival, we’ve got in on the game too! With the...
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    Top of the Clocks – Creative ideas for Needcraft Clock Making Kits
    • Jan 10
    • 3 min

    Top of the Clocks – Creative ideas for Needcraft Clock Making Kits

    If you’ve not yet tried one of our Needcraft kits, 2022 might be the year to try one out! Featuring a range of useful home ware kits,...
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    Blog highlights and Top Posts of 2021
    • Dec 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    Blog highlights and Top Posts of 2021

    It’s been a busy year on the Dannells blog and with many people trying their hand at lampshade making in the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021,...
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    Lampshade Inspiration - Different Shade Shapes
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    Lampshade Inspiration - Different Shade Shapes

    As fond as we are of the super versatile drum lampshades, that are seen everywhere from our homes to hotels to the high street,...
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    Lampshade Inspiration – Stick It Metallic Lampshade Making PVC
    • Dec 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Lampshade Inspiration – Stick It Metallic Lampshade Making PVC

    Make your next lampshade a metallic one! Easier than you think to achieve, try making a glowing, sumptuous and expensive shade inner...
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    Behind the Scenes of Needcraft You Tube Video Shoot
    • Nov 10, 2021
    • 4 min

    Behind the Scenes of Needcraft You Tube Video Shoot

    Filming our You Tube lampshade videos is easily one of our favourite days of the year and our recent filming in September was no...
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    Lampshade Inspiration - Tiered Lampshade Making System
    • Oct 15, 2021
    • 4 min

    Lampshade Inspiration - Tiered Lampshade Making System

    Contrary to popular belief, tiered lampshades are not just the staple of luxury hotel lobbies and high-end restaurants. They can look...
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    Summer Ideas for Outdoor Lanterns
    • Aug 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Summer Ideas for Outdoor Lanterns

    Lampshades can be everything from big and bold to small and subtle. They can be the eye catching focus of a room or a small detail that...
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    Top 4 products to secure a lampshade seam
    • Jul 22, 2021
    • 4 min

    Top 4 products to secure a lampshade seam

    We often ask our lampshade makers ‘what’s your favourite part of making a lampshade?’ and more often than not it’s when the lampshade...
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    Promote your Lampshade Making Workshop with Dannells
    • Jun 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Promote your Lampshade Making Workshop with Dannells

    With indoor get togethers now possible we're so pleased that Lampshade Making Workshops can start to take place and you can share your...
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    5 reasons to make a DIY lampshade
    • May 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    5 reasons to make a DIY lampshade

    Yey! You've found us and now you know you can make your own lampshades with our Lampshade Making Kits, you might be asking yourself why...
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    3 Essential Olfa tools for lampshade making
    • Apr 29, 2021
    • 3 min

    3 Essential Olfa tools for lampshade making

    ‘Give us the tools, and we will finish the job’ the proverb says, but what if those tools were made the job twice as quick and offered...
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    Washi tape clock making kit DIY tutorial
    • Mar 24, 2021
    • 3 min

    Washi tape clock making kit DIY tutorial

    Perfect for personalisation, our range of Needcraft Kits take minimal effort to make but deliver maximum impact. Fantastic for adding...
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    Light up your lounge - Floor and Table Lamp Kits
    • Jan 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    Light up your lounge - Floor and Table Lamp Kits

    If you’ve never had a virtual wander around our website, you’re missing a trick and plenty of lampshade making products you might not...
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    Join us for a LIVE festive Lantern Making Kit workshop on You Tube!
    • Dec 2, 2020
    • 1 min

    Join us for a LIVE festive Lantern Making Kit workshop on You Tube!

    It’s workshop time! After a string of successful LIVE Lampshade Making Kit workshops in #lockdown1 we’re back with a mini festive themed...
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    'Back to school' - Ways to refresh & reorganise your craft space
    • Sep 24, 2020
    • 3 min

    'Back to school' - Ways to refresh & reorganise your craft space

    The darker evenings, mean time for creative projects so why not refresh your craft space with some of our Needcraft kits?
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