Less Boring Desk Lamp

Do you have a pair of leggings laying around your bedroom that're too small & a boring desk lamp?
If so, keep reading..

 Here are the supplies you'll need to do this DIY...

Leggings

Lamp

Scissors

Cut along dotted lines shown or just cut the 2 pant legs off. Doesn't have to be a perfectly straight line.

Result:

Then cut the dotted lines shown or down the legs part. Then cut that vertically in half. 

Result:

Gently stretch each piece a few times.

Result:

The 2 pieces should look like thick pieces of string kinda.

Wrap both strings around the neck of the lamp.

Now, make a four as shown below...

Bring the short end behind the long part and put it through the hole.

Pull at both ends. (don't make it too loose or too tight)

Then, make a backwards 4 as shown below...

Bring the long string behind the one I'm holding onto in the previous photo and loop it through the opening.

It should look like this...

Then pull to tighten so it looks like this...

Repeat the last 3 steps. Make a backwards 4, bring the long string behind the one I'm holding onto in the previous photo and loop it through the opening, & pull to tighten.

I got the pattern to twist because I always looped the left string through the right. If you don't want yours to twist then loop the opposite side you used last to loop through. In other words, switch the side you looped through last time. For example; if you used the right side to loop through last time, this time you're going to loop through the left.

Progress of the twisted pattern.

If you run out of string, you have 2 options; stop there or attach more (I used fabric glue or you could sew more on). I just let the glue dry overnight because it was late and I had to go to bed. In the morning it was dry. I'm guessing fabric glue takes an hour or 2 to dry completely.

Oh and you can't really tell by the picture but I was able to get half of the neck of the lamp covered when I ran out of string. Then, I kept repeating the pattern steps. This is what the final result looked like.

I cut off the rest of the string. This is what the final result looked like.