lampshades and cushions which is amazing – I’m working on my order book to get everything sent out for Christmas

I was gifted a needcraft kit for Christmas and when lockdown first happened and I found it the perfect

One of my William Morris lampshades was featured in last year’s Etsy Christmas campaign with Banjo Beale

With Christmas approaching fast here’s our top tips and advice from our Facebook Lampshade Makers forum Karen Steed of mrssteed.co.uk has these wise words to share… ‘I do one fair pre-Christmas, I always think

memadeshade competition Next month is a bumper #memadexmasshade competition, that will run right up to Christmas

prepping and deciding on which African print fabric designs to make into lampshades for my upcoming Christmas

As a child, I remember always looking through the Argos catalogue at birthdays and Christmas and putting

Folksy is used by around 300,000 shoppers a month, with well over 500,000 in the run-up to Christmas.

small shade with the Wimbledon Windmill, the arch de triumph and the clock tower at Weymouth in, as a Christmas Grey Street in Newcastle formed my first Christmas cards and is my second top-selling shade.

excuse to get creative, Halloween is now recognised as the UK’s second biggest celebration outside of Christmas

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