Easy Burlap Ruffle Lampshade

If you love the look of rustic sewing craft ideas, then you'll love creating this Easy Burlap Ruffle Lampshade. Use burlap scraps and a sewing machine to add new life to a decorative piece. This is a simple and inexpensive project for sewers at all skill levels.

Materials:

• Burlap
• Scissors
• Twine
• Hot glue gun

Instructions:

1. First, cut a long strip of burlap about 6″ wide.
   
   
    
2. Take your scissors and snip one single strand of the twine about 2″ from one side of the edge.
    
3. Then just start pulling and gathering the burlap along that one strand so that it starts bunching up on itself along one side.
    
4. Keep pulling until you have the entire length of the burlap strip gathered up.
    
5. To hold your gather in place I put a single dot of hot glue on the pulled strand. (BTW- Please tell me your glue gun is as ugly and well-used as mine! Look how gross that sucker is!)
   
   
    
6. This is also a good thing to do if your string breaks along the way. Glue down the part that is gathered, then just grab another strand beside that one and start pulling again. You’ll eventually get it all gathered up. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
    
7. Once you finish one side, do the other side the same way.
    
8. You’re gonna have all sorts of fuzz and strings hanging off the ruffle, so just give it a quick haircut before you use it. Warning: The front of my shirt was COVERED in burlap lint during this craft night, so be sure to wear an old shirt for this project.
   
   
    
9. Once you have several strips ruffled up, you can just hot glue them end to end to create a long runner or garland out of them. The hot glue doesn’t show up on the burlap so just glob it on there really good. Nobody will notice. If you don’t have a hot glue gun then you can just tie a knot in the two threads once you get to the end of a run. Or, if you’re a perfectionist you could always sew them end to end with a needle and thread. I’m not a perfectionist.