Granny Stripe Crochet Lampshade Cover

I’ll apologize up front–this isn’t going to be my standard craft tutorial. I started making this granny stripe crochet lampshade cover on a whim and didn’t take pictures. Because every lampshade is different as well, exact counts don’t really work, either. I’ll try to explain how I made this as best I can and I suspect that if you crochet, you’ll be able to figure it out. I still consider myself pretty beginner at the craft, so if I managed to make it, more experienced crafters can definitely do it.

I bought a simple lamp for my office early after moving into this house. There wasn’t anything wrong with the lamp other than it was kinda boring–just white on white. I had wanted to do something with the lampshade for ages but couldn’t quite decide what. I’ve been crocheting a lot recently and had some gorgeous yarn that I couldn’t really figure out how to use, so decided to try out a lampshade cover. The yarn I used was DK weight–the colorful yarn is Madeline Tosh DK in What Up, Beach, and the black (which has silver sparkly thread running through it) was in my stash but unfortunately unlabeled. I used a size 5 hook.

I started by stitching a chain with the black and just putting it around the lampshade in a totally non exact way to measure. I stitched a row of single crochet (these are US terms) in the black and then started the granny stripes in the Madeline Tosh. After a couple of rows, I “measured” against the lampshade again and found that it was too big. I put a stitch marker on the chain that made it fit properly, frogged to there, and started over. Once the stripes covered the shade (I just held it up every once in a while), I finished the piece off with another row of the black yarn in single crochet. I didn’t join the cover with any particular kind of stitch–I kinda just winged it. You can see the seam in the next photo.

The cover fits perfectly over the lampshade–the black rows tuck around the edges. It comes on and off easily–I plan on making more!

It’s worth noting that this particular lampshade has straight sides, so it was easy to crochet what was essentially a smallish granny stripe rectangle and have it fit. At the end of the day, I’m super tickled with how my granny stripe crochet lampshade cover turned out. I loved working with this yarn and the whole project is everything I wanted.