…compilation of tutorials
I presented the ping pong ball lights before, this lamp is very similar.
But I won’t make this lamp, too, because my ceiling is very low and I’d always have to go around it ;-))
Links:
Another Ping Pong Ball Lamp (Vintage ping pong light and tutorial)
Here at unikatissima:
Ping Pong Ball Lights
Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps
I must say that I like this lamp very much – and it doesn’t seem to be very hard to make it.
We all know where you wrap in glue soaked yarns around balloons to get beautiful yarn spheres.
I’ve never had the idea to make most beautiful lamps this way ;-)
Links:
String Lamp (Handmade lamp, lamp shade, pendant, ceiling, hanging lamp by FiligreeCreations on Etsy)
Recently I had a nice idea, inspired by the nature bracelet and the clip art candles or faux quilt votives, resp.: a quick autum votive.
It became more beautiful than I expected ;-))
That’s what you do:
Tape the cardboard to a cylinder that has to be wider than the tealight but not especially beautiful.
Important note: my Votive was too narrow with this circumference and became warm very fast. I suggest strongly to make the cylinder wider!
Put the transparent tape around the cardboard cylinder with the sticky side outside(!).
My tape is about 5 cm broad therefore I put two on top of each other. The arrow shows where they overlap.
Now simply tape on colurful leaves. They may even overlap.
When you’ve finished you can decide whether you want to wrap everything with another layer of tape – this time sticky side inside ;-), then you simply pull your votive from the cardboard cylinder and put a tealight inside.
Another important note: The votive is very light and can therefore easily be blown into the flame.
When I will make this again, I think that I will put small tape stripes crosswise from side to side and weigh down everything with sand or a little plate.
Or I will work it directly around a glass, I think that’s smarter, because nothing can be blown away then ;-)
So don’t forget: Never leave burning candles unattended!
By the way, the leaves become brown as fast as ‘untreated’, but it is a beautiful decoration for an autumn table anyway.
Addendum: In the comments of the German entry Menoora writes, that leaves apparently keep their colours when gently ironed.
It’s worth a try, isn’t? ;-)
You can make it even more beautiful by taping a layer of packing tape transfers with interesting texts or comic pictures over the leaves :)
How about e.g. with a beautiful layed autumn table and the votives in place of name cards? The names could be designed in the style of the beautiful labels.
Anyway: Have much fun with this!
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Nature Bracelets
Clip Art Candles
Faux Quilt Votives
Packing Tape Transfers
Beautiful Labels for the Kitchen
I find the lamps funny ;-)
Especially because you don’t do anything else than freeform crochet on the spherical lamp frames.
But I won’t make them because my ceiling is very low and I had always to go round the lamps ;-))
But I have more lamps ‘on offer’ ;-))
Because the instruction is in German, here a (very short) translation:
You need: sphere lamp frame, different yarns (funky yarns, cotton, wool, ribbon yarn and so on, all in white or nature colours), big crochet hooks (5 mm and 7 mm (for conversion of crochet hooks see links below)) and if you like some big paillettes.
Patterns: They say that it looks best if you use a lot of patterns.
You can find inspiration in their PDF file, where they use the following stitches:
= ch (Chain)
= sc (Single crochet)
= dc (Double crochet)
= V st (V-stitch)
= ps (Puff stitch)
= shell (Shell stitch) with 4 dc, 3 ch, 1 dc
If you click the stitch names here above, you can see how these stitches are worked.
How to: Begin on top: crochet a chain ring to lay around the top opening. Crochet rings of patterns around the lamp, but they say that it looks great, too, if you change the pattern often by e.g. working crochet medaillons and adding them into your patterns.
They suggest to best crochet directly on the lamp frame so that you always can see whether it still fits.
They say that it was better to work too narrow than too wide and that they often worked with a couple of threads at a time with 7 mm needles.
Finish: Sew everything on at the top and bottom of the lamp frame. Cut from all threads fringes of about 1,60 m/4,5-5 inches and add to the bottom edge. If you like to, add some big paillettes.
Links:
Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps (Umhäkelte Leuchtkörper) (German)
Stitch descriptions:
ch (Chain)
sc (Single crochet)
dc (Double crochet)
V st (V-stitch)
ps (Puff stitch)
shell (Shell stitch)
Possibly helpful sites:
Crochet Hook Sizes And Conversions
Converting a pattern from US terms to UK terms
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Entries with the tag ‘lampshade’
Can you imagine that this lamp is made from recycled coffee cups?
Funky, isn’t it?
And if you don’t have as many coffee cups (yet?) and are in dire need of a lamp simply check out what you can find about lamps here ;-)
Links:
Coffee Cup Sphere Lamp
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘lampshade’
I’ve seen the oil lamp from an orange and a little oil before, but I’ve completely forgotten about it.
Unfortunately the time for oranges here is nearly over, I will have to come back to the other oil lamp which works with cotton for a certain time.
And I don’t know whether I will prefer to make embellished oranges, then ;-)
Links:
Oil Lamp From Orange (DIY: oil lamp with an orange)
Here at unikatissima:
Oil Lamp
Embellished Oranges
If you have eaten already the flowery pudding from the bottom of a plastic bottle, you can still make a chandelier from the ‘pudding mould’ ;-))
And if you don’t like it, simply make another lampshade ;-)
Links:
Plastic Bottle Chandelier (P.S.-I made this…chandelier)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
Entries with the tag ‘lampshade’
I presented the plastic bottle light chain before, apparently you can do the same with ping pong balls – while you’re still collecting plastic bottles ;-)
Looks trendy, doesn’t it?
Links:
Ping Pong Ball Lights
Here at unikatissima:
Plastic Bottle Light Chain
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’
Mostly I’m unnerved by the shampoo, shower gel and detergent plastic bottles and throw them away – where I should have kept them all to make such a wonderful plastic bottle light chain.
Or a lot of other great things.
;-))
Links:
Plastic Bottle Light Chain (Colorful lights)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’