more craft therapy - lamp shade tutorial

Cutest homemade lampshade EVER. From dish towels and quilt scraps. Here's how:

 I stripped off the original shade (leaving the inner lining just cuz)

 Using 2 dish towels and a torn quilt scrap, I cut 4 panels for the shade - 2 each of both fabrics. 

I left at least a half inch overlap on the top and sides, just to make sure there was enough fabric.

 Note that I also used some trim from extra dish towels to sew onto the quilt fabric at the bottom.

Using my GLUE GUN to attach the fabric to the shade frame,

I carefully stretched and glued the quilt panels to the metal frame first (above).

I glued the quilt panels first since they were most fragile and needed to be secured to the frame.

 Next, I folded and glued the dish towel panels right onto the quilt panels (above & below)

The sides were hardest, since they curved - I just went little by little. 

 I folded and sewed a few of the dish towel panels beforehand, but found it wasn't necessary -

it was just as easy to stretch and fold the panel as I was gluing it to the quilt fabric. 

Close-up of finishing off the edge as I stretched and folded the panel before gluing it.

I think I surprised myself that it turned out so GREAT! :)

And my very most favorite feature....... that I didn't even expect.......

 ***** IT GLOWS!!! *****