Little Women-Inspired Silhouette Lampshade

HI everyone! I am joining a very talented group of bloggers to create a fabric project based on a classic book. I decided to make a Little Women-inspired Silhouette Lampshade with fabric swatches by making fabric appliques. I had the book Little Women,by Louisa May Alcott which I remembered reading in college and I’ve seen the movie many, many times. It tells the story of four amazing sisters and their life in New England during the Civil War era. It’s definitely a classic! They always play it around the holidays and I try to catch it at least once!

I wanted to really update it and do a new twist on an old classic. I decided to put women’s profiles based on the Character’s in the book, cut from these great modern fabrics on a lampshade. I even have templates at the end of the post just for you if you want to make your own! I used this technique to make the fabric stiff enough to work with and to keep the edges from fraying. I used the templates to trace and cut my silhouettes and then glued them on!

For the sister “Meg” I used  the Rosa Mandarin Dossett for her silhouette and the Suzani Coral/White for the frame  in the Premier Fabric line.

For “Beth” I used  Chipper Village Blue/Natural for her silhouette amd  Rosa Mandarin Dossett for the frame.

“Jo” was cut out in a super fun Dandelion White/Coral and the frame was Emily Corn Yellow Slub.

and for “Amy” I used the combo of   the Chipper Village Blue/Natural and the Linked Saffron Yellow Macon.

It was fun to mix and match the fabrics and play with the different designs and colors.

I also added little pops of colors from left over bits of the cut fabric like on “Amy’s” bow.

What I love most how colorful this lampshade is and how I can turn it to a different color combo in front to change the whole look!It was so easy to do, but has such a great impact!If you want to make your own, just right click to save the templates to your computer to use for personal use and then resize them to fit your own lampshade or even on a pillow. If you like decorated pillows, then see how to make this artist’s inspired lamp shade.

It was so much fun to think outside of the box! Hop on over to the next blogger The Hunted Interior and see what amazing creativeness she came up with!

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