Lamp makeover

I've always really admired the style of Dottie Angel and Ted & Agnes. They're the author's of 'Granny Chic: Crafty recipes & inspiration for the handmade home from Dottie Angel and Ted & Agnes'. One of the cool ideas in the book involves tarting up an old wire lampshade with scraps of your favourite fabrics and I decided to try my hand at it.

I picked up a scalloped wire shade in a thrift shop for £1 and cut the old cover off and used scraps and doilies from my collection for recovering. It can be a wee bit fiddly but once you get the first few scraps on, it's much easier. The trick is keeping the fabric taut and pinning and stitching as you go makes that easier.

I heartily recommend the book if you're serious about cultivating a love of all things granny chic. The photography is fantastic and the can-do spirit of the authors is inspiring.