Lampshade Lady's Guide to Lighting Up Your Life, The by Judy Lake, Kathleen Hackett (2009) Hardcover Hardcover

Creative and useful, this book will enrich your carft skills or be a helpful quide to lamshade making. Very pleased with this purchase.

Brilliant book and very inspiring! Highly recommend; good colourful illustrations.

Well photographed and written . Some great ideas and know how

lots of pictures to inspire, but american style/way of making up shades, prefer the traditional style of making upshades. good choice of ideas though, still worth a look.

Delicious for the eyes... got inspired, will create some lampshades at some point. Very good book

As a beginner I need all the help I can get and this book certainly gives the extra help would recommend to anyone

The book is well documented and explains step by step how to make the lampshades (with pictures). The book is therefore really helpful and I will use it. However, I didn't find the models very trendy (from the perspective of a 30-year old). Actually, the one on the cover is one of the few ones I liked, but it's all a matter of personal taste.

The first thing that struck me about Judy Lake's book is the incredible photography! Along with very specific instructions for each lampshade project is a pictorial showing all the elements needed to create the shade as well as how different steps of how the project should look. The well described guidelines along with the beautiful photos make it near impossible to mess up! Love it! The book is divided into sections - easy shades, intermediate, advanced, lamps and finials and templates along with a glossary and resource information. The shade that caught my eye is the Heirloom Photo Shade, shown with pictures of the lampshade made from photocopies of photographs of Judy Lake's Australian Shepherds. Fabulous idea for gift making and for use of all my own dog photographs. If you are interested in fabrics, lampshades, creative projects or looking for a book to help create unusual and personalized gifts - don't pass up this incredibly well done Guide to light up your life! Well done Judy Lake!

After reading this wonderful book, my wife ordered three of them as gifts and wrote the following review for Amazon.com:"The Lampshade Lady's Guide does light up your life. It is delightful book that you can initially leaf through and enjoy the beautiful photographs and creative descriptions of fifty unique lampshades. As the author introduces each lampshade, her personal story brings the shade to life.Not only did I learn how to make a lampshade, I learned the importance of considering a lamp and its shade an integral part of a room's décor. The book's introduction explains the terminology and helps the reader select the right style shade and fabric for the lamp. The book is organized by level of difficulty. Following a list of the required materials, the instructions are clear and include photographs of various steps. A well written glossary and resources list help the reader identify and locate the supplies needed.It is hard to decide which lampshade to make first, but after you've completed one, you can't wait to make another."

Great read.plenty of information. Tips and techniques as to create your individual lampshade..

It’s a good book because of the glossary but if you want to know how to sew lamp shades theirs is nothing about that at all.

I am not a friend of Judy Lake, but I would like to be:) I am a professional embroiderer and have written two books on that subject so I appreciate what goes into the writing of a book. I can honestly say this was a "how-to" book that I read like a novel...I didn't want to stop reading. I love the way she repeats each caution and direction for every shade until the lampshades at the very end where she knows you've "got it." I won't forget what kind of grosgrain ribbon to buy...One of my favorite pastimes is taking old linens and re-purposing them.."beautiful old things and old things made beautiful." I am always looking for new things to fashion from those treasures so I got the idea of a lampshade. I bought the book to see if I could adapt Judy's teachings to that end and was enchanted to find she was a few steps ahead of me.I disagree with the reviewer who suggested that the book doesn't encourage creativity. It certainly does inspire for the reader to see what the writer does and then think,"Well, what if I did this instead?" Any artist or artisan can only show what they do/have done and let you take it from there. They can't conjure up every thing others might think about doing and address each one...the book would never be finished!I am looking forward to trying some of the ideas in the book - and some of the ideas the book has inspired in me. Thank you, Judy, for a treasure of a book. I will be speaking at a Navy function in New Hampshire in September and have already thought about a side trip to Vermont to thank you in person and see your lampshades in person. I don't know if I can make that happen but it would be an honor to meet such an inspiration.

Good book.