It's not one of my strengths. My hands shake and apparently I flunked scissors in kindergarten and no one told me (there's always a lot of cutting with sewing for some reason). Nonetheless, my sister's baby shower is less than a month away and the book with a cute mobile made from a lampshade finally came.
I got through the lampshade portion tonight and tomorrow night I'll sew the birds that will hang down below. I'm happy with how this evening's efforts have turned out, although I'm still not a convert from the hot glue gun (it's so easy and fast). Actually, I did pull out the glue gun to add some button embellishments not called for in the original project.
I took some of the pictures with the lampshade illuminated, but obviously in the end, when its hanging above the crib, it won't be. I think after the kid outgrows the mobile, she could cut the hanging birds off and use it as a lampshade.
