That's right! Not happy with making slip covers for dining room chairs and armchairs, I've turned my attention to lampshades now. In the main bedroom we have a very lovely lamp. I like the shade very much. It looked gold when the light was switched off, switched on and the fabric looked pink. However, it wasn't all that pleasing to the eye. My eye. I wanted to pretty it up.
On Monday I had a flash of inspiration. I knew I couldn't buy a new shade for the lampbase as it needed this specific style, which screws in at the top. I've never seen any like it for sale individually. I decided I could make a cover for it instead. I didn't want to rip off the fabric and attach fabric to the frame for two reasons. 1. I worry about the flammability of fabric. By covering the shade 'as was' I knew the inside would be fine with the heat of a bulb, and 2. I thought it would be much simpler to just cover it up than start from scratch.
I found an old cushion cover that I wasn't using.
Then, using the same technique as I've used for covering chairs, I turned the fabric wrong side out, then pinned and tacked into place. 
I don't know why, I always use bright red for my tacking stitches. Then I machined down the tacked sides, ironed, then turned right side out to make sure it was a good fit. Once on the shade I was able to cut and hem the fabric to fit perfectly.
The top and bottom needed tidying up a bit, so I used my trusty fabric glue and glued pale pink velvet ribbon along the top, and bought some cream tassel to put along the bottom.
*Ta da* the result is a shabby chic looking lampshade that cost me no more than £1.29 (for the metre of tassel) to revamp. I can remove it easily if I want to use the original shade, or change it for another one. Yes, I plan to make a few lampshade slipcovers.
While this is a very simple thing to do, I found it quite fiddly, more so than making covers for chairs. I think it was worth it though. Old fashioned shades like this are hard to find in shops, it's rather nice to think I can make them myself!