A while ago I posted about some works in progress. I finally finished my blanket-turned-lampshade-cover, and I do rather like it. The original lampshade was gold, and when the light was on the gold showed through and didn’t look right. I searched for ages for a white one in the usual places, Homebase, B&Q, Wilkos, Argos (yeah, we’re high end in this house!). But eventually eBay was to become my saviour, and a lampshade was swiftly delivered from The Lighting Warehouse. I crocheted the squares together essentially into a bandeau, no gluing, sewing or fixing. The crochet is just slipped over the shade.
It’s on a rather ugly uplighter at the moment, but I’m going to keep an eye out for a nice base.
My inspiration was from MeMe Rose, who is soon going to think I am stalking her (the Irises I linked to previously were hers). She has enviable amounts of crochet in her house – well, I’m envious anyway!
Dilly Tante 
I LOVE this.
Thank you 🙂
Wow, that’s gorgeous! How do you keep it from catching on fire though, in case the lamp gets too hot? Just curious.
You are pretty talented Dilly, I can tell you right now, if I’d attempted that, there would be more blood on that beautiful white wool than those lovely flowers 🙂
Ummm…I’m just hoping it won’t! No, seriously I don’t think it would get that hot, especially with a normal lampshade underneath.
I love that. It will never get hot enough to catch fire if all you are using is a normal light bulb.
Hmm that’s so weird, I thought I already commented on this post… Oh well 🙂 Just wanted to drop by again and thank you for the comment on my latest blog post – I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair 😀 Thanks for the encouragement, I’ll get right to froggin’ 😉
xo,
wink
Started a very similar blanket and it’s going well. Can’t decide if I prefer the two colours with white or the three coloured option. I’ve noticed the darker colours really jump out in the three coloured squares.
If you do two colours the squares will be even smaller so you will have to make more, which might get pretty boring after a while.
Very cute and clever
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How lovely !