Button lampshade

I was given a plain, dark red lampshade on a dark red porcelain base by my aunt, which goes perfectly with the subtle red theme in the bedroom, on the bedside table. However, over the weekend I decided that the red needed slightly toning down/lightening up to blend with the other furniture and bits and bobs in the bedroom...

Materials:

• old lampshade
• fabric
• buttons
• pva glue
• needle, thread and pins

1. I cut a rectangular length of cream material that was left over from the bedroom curtains and pinned it over the red lampshade in order to see whereabouts the ends of the fabric would overlap. At this point I folded about 1/2 and inch of one edge of the material under itself and pinned it into a hem.
2. I then glued the fabric lightly onto the lampshade and held it in place with pegs at the top and bottom while it dried. Then I overlapped the fabric round the top and bottom of the lampshade and used a sturdy needle to sew neatly round the top and bottom, and vertically down the seam where the fabric overlapped itself.
3. It needed something to finish it off, so I collected lots of similarly coloured buttons from my button tins and sewed them along the bottom edge of the lampshade.