Pillowcase Lamp Shade

Thank you for all your kind comments on my little trip around The Cove here, I am really enjoying floofing around the house and putting treasures in different rooms and just seeing what I can come up with.

When I was glued to Pinterest looking for inspirations for the bonus room I ran across this:

Source: therestoredhomeblog.com via Michelle on Pinterest

I love the shabbiness of it and it looked like something that I could handle, so off to Walmart I went.

I picked up two standard white pillowcases for around $10.

I cut the pillowcase so I could get as many strips out as I could.
Just make sure that your strips are going to be long enough to go around the lamp shade.

To make things easier, I cut into it about an inch and then ripped the rest of the way.  

These sheets tear brilliantly! 

I had just enough strips to cover the shade and I am sure that there is some mathematical way to figure that out before you start but unfortunately I don't know that. :)

So, I guessed. :)

Now you just tie on your strips and place the knot/bow in the position that want overlapping each strip.

You will have little gaps in certain areas but if your shade is the same color you won't notice.

(Although it would be cool to do a different color and have that contrast)

Here is what it looks like all finished up.

Now you noticed that this is a different lamp and shade then the one I showed in my last post and the reason being I just changed my mind.  :)

I wanted to show you how it originally started out and how it can look like this, which I do love, but I wasn't feeling it in the room.

So, all I did was put all the knots/bows on the inside of the shade and if I ever want a change, it is an easy switch.

I love how it turned out and think that this way fit the room a little more than what I originally had in mind. :)