This post brought to you by someone who never gets rid of good stuff (just in case!) 😄 Do you remember this amber cafe curtain I made for our bathroom 10 years ago? It’s still one of my top performing blog tutorials. And since I’m not *great* at getting rid of things, 😬 I still had the curtain folded amongst my fabric stash and pulled it out to make a box pleat lamp shade for our new-to-us piano. More on that coming soon! Creating the Box Pleat Lampshade ‘Skirt’: You’ll need quite a bit of length to wrap the lampshade as the box pleats eat up a-lot of fabric! To determine how much fabric you need, measure the circumference of the top opening of your lampshade. Multiply the circumference by 4 to determine the length of your fabric. Since I was repurposing my curtain fabric, I cut my fabric horizontally across the middle, sewed the two pieces end to end to create one continuous looong rectangle and hemmed the raw edges. Once hemmed, my rectangle of fabric was 80”W x 8.5”H for a lampshade with a top circumference of 19.5”. Box pleats are essentially created by folding a forward-facing pleat followed by a backward-facing pleat, pinning and ironing them in place as you go. Repeating this process until the length of the fabric is fully pleated. Next I sewed two stitch lines along the top edge to hold the pleats in place. Then I fit the pleated fabric on my lampshade, pinned the ends together, and made little tacks with my sewing machine to connect the two ends. @mollyinmaine has a very detailed and helpful tutorial on her blog on creating box pleated shade slipcovers PM. So highly recommend checking her out if you’re wanting to make one! I love the character this little shade brings to the marble lamp on the piano! And the amber/marigold feels just right nestled in with neutrals here. 🧡 Linen fabric is from Etsy. Color: Amber LTKHome LTKStyleTip