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    Soft Shade Making Series: Making a soft shade cover from a pattern
    • May 17
    • 4 min

    Soft Shade Making Series: Making a soft shade cover from a pattern

    Making a well-fitting outer cover for your soft shade is critical to achieving an eye-catching and considered lampshade and today, we pick up from our previous post in our Soft Shade Making Series - How to Make a Pattern. In this post we show you how to transfer your lampshade pattern to your chosen fabric, tips on sewing it together and how to fit it to your pre-bound soft lampshade making frame, all with step by step photo tutorials. https://www.dannellsblog.com/soft-shade-
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    Soft Shade Making Series - How to Make a Pattern
    • Apr 14
    • 6 min

    Soft Shade Making Series - How to Make a Pattern

    With the preparations for making a traditional soft shade covered in our Soft Shade Making Series, it’s time to talk patterns! Making an accurate pattern from your frame is essential to getting a beautiful, pucker-free fit for the outer fabric of your lampshade. With several essential stages to cover we've packed this post with three easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, alongside hints and tips from professional makers, to help you perfect this important skill. Lined and
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    Soft Shade Making Series - How to bind a lampshade frame
    • Mar 16
    • 5 min

    Soft Shade Making Series - How to bind a lampshade frame

    Our third post in our Soft Shade Making Series is about laying the foundations for the lampshade ahead, namely binding your lampshade frame. To help you master this important skill, that's integral to holding your outer fabric and lining in place, we’ll take you step-by-step through how to bind your frame, what to consider and prepare, as well as the tools and materials you’ll need to start your soft shade making journey! Why do I need to bind a frame? Binding the frame means
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    Soft Shade Making Series: Binding Tape
    • Feb 10
    • 4 min

    Soft Shade Making Series: Binding Tape

    In our second post of our new Soft Shade Making Series, today we're talking about binding tapes and how they are an essential part of making a traditional soft lampshade. A binding tape’s main function is to give your chosen fabric a base to be sewn into, and we'll explain why using the right tape gets you the right results, how to measure tape for a frame and what widths of tape to use. Binding tapes explored Binding tape, or India tape as it’s also commonly known, is a whit
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    Soft Shade Making Series: Traditional Lampshade Frames
    • Jan 18
    • 3 min

    Soft Shade Making Series: Traditional Lampshade Frames

    Lampshade making comes in many forms and although making ‘hard shades’ is a popular and easy way to achieve a stunning new lampshade, our NEW Soft Shade Making series focuses on getting you started making traditional lampshades. Soft Shade Frames Getting to know your basic materials is an important part when starting out in any craft, and can save time and mistakes in the future. There are a few different methods involved in covering a traditional lampshade and a range of gim
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    Meet the Maker - Lume lighting
    • Aug 31, 2021
    • 4 min

    Meet the Maker - Lume lighting

    Combining her passion for clean and simple design and talent for detailed printing, Joanna of Lume Lighting creates lampshades that are nothing short of beautiful. Ranging from intricately patterned modern drums to ombre traditional shades, along with her fabulous new wooden pendant lights, Joanna has built up a successful lighting business. We go behind the scenes to find out about her creative influences, what her days look like and why she loves lampshade making! Hi there!
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