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Customized Lampshade

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Here’s a great tutorial from Cicada Studio.  I’ve mentioned her fabric designs before, but wanted to share this quick and easy project for how to cover an IKEA lamp.  The square shape makes it much easier!  More IKEA ideas at IKEA Hacker.  I found the link for this project via Apartment Therapy.

And check out the contest sponsored by Apartment Therapy and Etsy:  Do It Now!  The Small Projects DIY Month.  Some inspirational projects posted already.  And a $250 gift certificate to Etsy?  You’d better get to it.  I particularly like this project (pictured below) from Aya Rosen on how to decorate a tea set.  Lovely!

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Liberty Hair Slides

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Maybe you could make these?  I found these sweet Liberty print hair slides over in the Selvedge shop.   A bit of interfacing, some Liberty fabric, stiffening spray?  Made by Tout Silo, who also has a lovely blog and shop.  I’m a sucker for anything with Liberty of London prints.  And look how sweet they are in a child’s hair:

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Contests & Giveaways

Getting ready for a FABRIC giveaway tomorrow, but thought I’d give you an update about some fun giveaways and contests around the web:

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Fat Quarter February at Sew, Mama, Sew:  Featuring a new fat quarter project daily all this month.  And leave a comment this week to win a stack of six fat quarters!  Now that’s phat.  (Sorry.  I couldn’t resist.)

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Threadbanger and CraftyChica: Enter to win a special Crafty Chica-inspired sewing machine, Crafty Chica’s new book, and 30 jars of glitter.  Please don’t let my kids near that glitter!

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Toronto Craft Alert: The Crafty Slackers Get Er Done Giveaway — Finish that project you’ve been procrastinating and enter to win over $700 in handmade goodies.

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Melissa Averinos, creator of the Sugar Snap fabric line for Free Spirit, is giving up some of her new fabric (and others) in celebration of her two-year blog anniversary.  Open until Friday, February 20.

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Echino Placemats

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More Japanese fabric.  I’ve had this Echino fabric for months now and although it was originally intended for another project, I made my daughter a new placemat for school.  I made some of these for her last year and posted the tutorial, but this time she insisted on having adult-sized mats since that’s what all the other kids have.  Yes, we’ve entered that territory.

Oh, and I wanted to mention that Bee Square Fabrics is having a promotion this month for 25% off the Echino fabrics with coupon code FebSale_Echino25 to be entered during checkout.