Last week, I promised another tutu craft project. After painting Celeste

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Last week, I promised another tutu craft project. After painting Celeste’s room and finishing her butterfly quilt cover , I’m slowly adding more handmade touches to make it perfect for her. Next up is a combination of two of my tutorials, to create a Ballerina Tutu Lampshade:
I started with an IKEA OLLSTA shade with a JANUARI base and followed this tutorial for how to cover a lampshade (yes, I do refer back to my own tutorials!). The fabric was leftover from the butterfly quilt cover (Spintastic by Laura Berringer for Marcus Fabrics – getting hard to find now…).
Then I made a small tutu, following my how to sew a tutu tutorial , using a 65cm (25.5”) piece of elastic (10mm/3/8” wide) and the tutu is 18cm(7”) long. ie I cut one strip of fabric 36cm (24”) wide from selvedge to selvedge, and did the rolled hem and tutu as per the tutorial . The tutu fabric is organza, leftover from Celeste’s dress-up tutu.
I placed the tutu onto the lampshade and strategically placed a couple of pins to hold it into position. Celeste isn’t likely to pull on it. You may prefer to hand-sew it to the lampshade in few spots or use safety pins underneath the tutu. 
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