Burlap Chandelier Shades ~ Made by Me!

We have a nice chandelier.  It has great bones. I really like the black iron scroll work and it goes with the cottage/rustic feel that we've got going right now. I believe every room needs a little bit of black. It's like punctuation...the room feels unfinished without it. So, we weren't going to turn this chandelier down when it was offered to us as a hand-me-down. Hand-me-downs are awesome!!!   (If only I had felt the same way when I was a little girl getting all of my big sister's hand-me-down clothing!  At least she had good taste in clothing.)   For some reason this chandy never felt quite right. It may be because it's slightly too large for our little dining room. But that wasn't gonna stop us from using it in there! This room opens up to our living room and there are black iron elements in there also, so I don't think it's because of the black.

Here they are BEFORE:

Pottery Barn has burlap chandelier shades on sale now, 3 for $39.00.  But I don't have $80.00 to spend updating my chandy!  

So I scoured the thrift store shelves until I found 6 chandelier shades for a buck a piece. I thought if I put my mind to it I could find a way to update some inexpensive shades myself.

This is what the thrift store shades looked like before I started my handy work:

I spread out my burlap, placed the chandelier shade on it's side and starting at the existing seam, I rolled it along the burlap and drew a line marking where I needed to cut.  I don't have a photo of this, unfortunately.  I don't have enough hands!  But it is pretty simple if you start at the seam and end at the seam.   I did the same thing for the top and bottom.  I cut out the burlap, leaving a little extra fabric at the top and bottom as well as some overlap at the seam end, to be safe. Then I took the spray adhesive and sprayed the outside of the chandelier shade liberally (I know that's a dirty word to some of you, sorry ;) ) and pressed the burlap to the shade.  I hot glued at the seam to hold it on and trimmed the excess from the bottom with little scissors.  I folded the burlap over the top edge and hot glued it down there also. 

Here is what they looked like at this point:

Now it's time for some trim:

I wrapped the single fold, BIAS TAPE along the top and bottom edge and hot glued it down.  The end was cut at a diagonal because that just looks so much prettier!

AND HERE THEY ARE AFTER:

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