Post #757038 by swizzle on Sat, Jan 9, 2016 10:44 PM

Thank you for the kind words Wendy, Lori and TikiAno.

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I finished up a couple of lights yesterday. The fabric on this first one i found a few weeks ago when i went out for a drive.

I happened to find a family owned store that has been making rattan/cane furniture for the past 63 years. I went in to see if they had any materials i could use for my lamp making. I asked about some seagrass edging which he had a small roll of that he sold me, i bought a couple of metres of the fabric used on this lamp, plus he GAVE me two huge lengths of another tapa type fabric. He gave me sooo much of it that i gave some of each colour to a friend and made several cushion covers out of each colour just to use it up because there is so much of it. I will use it on a few lamps and plan to reupholster some seat covers for a table and chair set i bought at a thriftstore a little while ago, but i still think i'll never use it all.

Here's a couple of pics of what i got and the cushions, Daisy approved.

And here's the second lamp i finished. This is basically the same as the one pictured a few posts back except the routing design on the bottom is different and it doesn't have the 'lid/top' like that other one has. On the first one i had cut the fabric about an 1/2" too short so i had to redo it but then i realised, because of how i attach it to the frame, if i cut it in half and attached it in two pieces instead of one it would work, and it did, so here it is.

I have another frame ready in this style lamp which i will cover in the red fabric pictured above and another three different ones (two are the same body, they'll have different bases though) that are just about finished. I'm waiting for some rope to arrive in the mail and when it does they just need that added to them and they're done.

I'll post pics when they're completed.

Cheers
swiz