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DIY: Pleated Lampshades (With Embroidered Surprises), Budget Edition
Photography by Mel Walbridge for Remodelista.
For a long while I’ve been eyeing knife-pleated lampshades, wanting a couple of my own.
• Lampshade (I found several at Goodwill for $2 each; it’s okay if they’re a little blemished.).
Supplies
• Needle and thread or fabric glue (I used Bish’s Original Tear Mender, a US-made instant adhesive; note that this is best for dark and patterned fabrics only, as I learned it shows through light fabrics after a while.).
1. Measure the fabric.
Start by measuring the amount of fabric you’ll need. You’ll need a long strip, at least 3-4 times the diameter of the bottom of the lampshade.
Starting on one side of your long strip of fabric, run a line of fabric glue and press neatly to “hem”, using a ruler or any patterning as a guide.
2. Hem the edges.
Here’s an optional step to give your lampshade a little extra stiffness: Spray the fabric with laundry starch, or paint it lightly with homemade starch.
3. Coat with starch (optional).
4. Accordion-fold, an inch at a time.
Here’s the slightly finicky part of the process: accordion folding. Using the yard stick as a guide, fold the fabric in even pleats (I did one-inch pleats).
With the fabric still clipped, iron the creases, front and back.
5. Iron the creases.
You should have something that looks like this. For a little wink, add an embroidered detail or two.
You’re getting a sense of how it will fall.
6. Wrap the cloth around the lampshade.
7. Match and glue the seams.
Find the two ends of the fabric and match them together, then glue. If you went the sewing route for the hems, you can slip off the fabric at this point, stitch the ends together, and then re-drape over the shade.
8. Adhere pleats to the top.
To evenly affix the fabric to the top of the lampshade, imagine the top of the lampshade is a clock.
Repeat with the inward-facing pleats at 3:00 and 9:00, continuing on until each inward-facing pleat is glued and evenly spaced around the top of the lampshade.
The Finished Product
The finished shade in my living room. The lamp base was a lucky stoop find when I lived in New York.
Another version by our entryway; for this one, I used a patterned fabric scrap I love.