When starting this project, I had quite a large goal as to where I wanted to go with this project. I found inspiration from an interior designer, Jade Connor Design chandeliers. I had originally had this idea for a project proposal when we were starting our group projects and since it wasn’t used I figured this would be a great opportunity to do that project.

Initially, I wanted to have a tall floor lamp for my base structure however, GoodWill did not have one so I bought a regular table lamp and lamp shade for the base of my project. I completely took apart the lampshade so that I could start tying the yarn to it and create my piece. I then needed to find some yarn and I was really struggling to find a color and texture that I wanted to work with. I finally wandered into the clearance aisle at Hobby Lobby and found what I deemed the perfect reel of yarn for this specific project.

I knew I wanted to use layering as an aspect of my lamp but was not sure to what degree I wanted to use it. I went back and forth as to how I would layer and tie the yarn to make it interesting. I finally just started to cut two different lengths of yarn and tied them around the lamp structure with a pattern as to where the yarn would be tied. Once I had tied everything on and around the piece as a whole, I felt as though it was missing something so, I added another layer of yarn that was longer which kind of emulates the look of a jellyfish.

The final product of my project is interesting. I think that if I added another material, potentially grey pearls it would look really cool. The budget was really starting to come after me so I opted not to do that. Given how much money I was allocating to this project I feel as though it turned out well.