Coming up: Happy Birthday Us! Craft Night May 28th - Our 1st Makerversary!!!!!

THIS MONTH WE'RE CELEBRATING OUR 1st BIRTHDAY WITH A VERY SPECIAL MAKEVERSARY CRAFT NIGHT!

We can't believe it's been 1 year since we started our crafty event at The Hackney Attic - the 1st one was held May 29th 2012!

In stats that means:

• 12 action packed craft events
• 70+ people learning how to knit
• 40+ special guests
• 50+ workshops and a staggering 
• 1000+ people coming though the doors and making things.

Thank you soooo much to every single person who has come to the night, told people about us, written about us, tweeted us, left messages on our blog and volunteered to run our amazing workshops.

To celebrate we're invited back some of the incredible people who have helped us over the last year to return to run workshops again!

DIY COUTURE
Rosie joined us at our first ever event where we celebrated the launch of her book. 
She'll be showing you how to sew your own stylish collar

USE IT UP WEAR IT OUT

We love Karen & Jo's philosophy of making things new things from old...which look bang on trend! The girls joined us for our Stitched Not Stirred James Bond evening, our summer Club Tropicana session and for spooky mask making. They'll be running a hatmaking session...cos you can't have a party without one!


FARCREAZY FARID
Turned February Comic Crazy with his drawing workshop which he'll be repeating  again for those who missed it!

ARTYARD HANDMADE 
Who joined us in October at our Day of The Dead craft night and showed us how to stitch skull brooches, for our birthday they'll be running a decoration workshop.

And that's not all there's also a raffle, live drawing, our infamous Collage Corner, Knit & Knatter, where you can learn to knit, music from our resident DJs The Spinning Yarns AND a special birthday raffle. 

Tuesday 28th May, 7.30-11pm.

FREE ENTRY 

The Hackney Attic, 5th floor Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London, E8 1HE

Look forward to seeing you there!



The Make Escape Team

Coming Up: Free Summer Craft Nights at The Hackney Attic, London!

Hope to see you there!

Highlights from our Treasure Island Craft Night

What a swashbuckling night! At April's Make Escape we had a parrot, treasure maps, pirate eye-patch making, oodles of treasure to make stuff with and three pirate VJs aka Chester Copperpot, Matt Overboard and Captain Morgan, as featured in the Londonist!

Being listed on this most finest of websites meant we had lots of new attendees. Yay!

Purple Claire kicked off the workshops with finger knitted necklaces, one of the easiest and fastest craft techniques we've ever seen and tried out!

It was a particular hit with visiting workshoppers the Shoreditch Sisters aka the local WI who can't normally come as their own meetings clash with our night. We hope to see them again in July when we have another 'five Tuesday' month!

In our popular knit & knatter corner run by Madelaine, two newbie men learnt how to knit. Craig, pictured here, recently went on a yarn shopping spree without trying out knitting, so now he knows what to do with his stash.

While Jo was very proud of her first ever cable knit in the form of a gorgeous woolly bangle.

Every pirate needs a patch so we also ran a 'make a patch' workshop from lovely soft faux leather and a comfy felt backing.

Modelled here beautifully by one of our workshoppers.

Elsewhere Becky demonstrated how to make paper beads from a surprise ssupply of origami paper that was mysteriously donated to us.

They went down very well in the collage corner.

Local jewellery designer Sheridan from Ever and Ava brought along a trunk of jewels to make gorgeous memory wire bracelets...

...like these stunning creations:

Meanwhile the pirates were hard at work ensuring we could get creative to salty sounds. The visuals some of which you can see here, consisted of dancing pirates, giant octopuses, fish and extracts of sea themed films like Muppet Treasure Island.

The set list included:

What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?

Fish by Mr Scruff

Rock The Boat by Hues Corporation

Fisherman's Blues by The Waterboys

Tabitha's Island by Me Me Me

£1 Fish by One Pound Fish Man

Liberty Ship by The La's

Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid

And here are the folk who put the Treasure Island craft night together - Becky, Momtaz, Heather and Suzi aka Team Make Escape.

THIS COMING MONTH, MAY, IS THE BIGGIE!!!!!!!

The Make Escape turns 1 on May 28th and we are organising the most spectacular craft night that has ever been hosted in the whole of Londinium!!

Mark it in your diaries now - details coming very soon!

All the images this month were taken by Greg McKinney aka Chester Copperpot

Coming up: Treasure Island Jewellery Making Craft Night April 30th 2013

This month we're sailing the seven seas to lands afar in our Treasure Island Jewellery making Special.

Arrr! You'll have a chance to make the finest pirate booty you've ever laid eyes on with help from some rather fabulous designer/makers. Be warned you may need to bring a treasure chest to take it all home in!

Shiver Me Timers! Finger Knitted necklaces with Purple Claire

You don't need any equipment to make jewellery, just a ball of yarn and your fingers!  

Purpleclaire who joined us for last year's Winter Wonderland weaving session, will be running a workshop showing you how to make necklaces, bracelets and brooches using a selection of yarns, ribbons and upcycled materials.

Barnacles! It's Beaded Bangles with Sheridan Lane from Ever and Ava
Whether you prefer rubies or emeralds, the pirate in you will be spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting a design  to make memory wire bracelets. Craft obsessed Sheridan specialises in vintage themed wedding jewellery like tiaras and haircombes but in keeping with our underwater adventure theme will supplying beads in sea shades like blues and turquoises.

Ahoy there! Collage Corner: Paper Beads with The Make Escape's Becky
Create pirate flags and treasure maps in our collage corner or make your every own beads using paper that you can thread into your accessory of choice with help from our very own Bekcy.

Knit & Knatter: Knitted Cuffs 
Every month our resident Knitting Guru Madelaine teaches people how to knit - even if they've never picked needles up in their lives. This month newbies and nifty knitters will have a chance to knit their own jewellery in the form of snazzy, comfy wrist cuffs. 

Maker's Market: A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi
Jewellery designer Camilla Malmer will be selling her gorgeous literature inspired jewellery which you can check out here in her Etsy shop.

PLUS!!! We have one surprise workshop too!
Which we shall be revealing on the day : )

As usual the Hackney Attic bar will be serving grog but our resident DJs Spinning Yarns have sadly had their ship hijacked and will be handing the anchors over to some real pirates...

All Hands On Decks who will be Vjing for the night. Did we just say Vjing???

Expect salty sounds and vicious videos to watch and listen to from Captain Morgan, Matt Overboard and Chester Copperpot as you craft the night away!

What could be more pleasurable?

(Pirate illustration by Matthew Lee).

See you Tuesday 30th April, from 7.30pm at Hackney Attic, Hackney Picturehouse Cinema, 270 Mare Street, Londinuim. 

Highlights: Easter Extravaganza Craft Night

Our Easter Craft Night was cracking!

So many newbies came along including these two lovely local ladies who read about us in the local paper. They had NEVER knitted before but both took home finished egg cosies.

This pair had never knitted either.
Here they are in the early stages...

 Check out what they had turned into by the end of the night:

They made the hair pieces too, but more on that later!

Our resident Knitting Guru Madelaine was the woman on hand who showed them and others how to turn a ball of yellow yarn into something cute! She's here every month with her team so fear not if you missed out, she's always happy to show you how to get your knit on.

Crochet queen (in fact all round textile super woman) Catherine Hirst led a special session on crochet.

She brought along some patterns from her books including pretty Spring flowers.

 

A proud new crocheter with her first ever chain.

Our Becky attempting her own crochet fleurs.

In the Maker's Market we were joined by Larissa who runs the Etsy London Meet-Up Group.

She dyes and makes her own yarns in gorgeous colours.

You can't celebrate Easter without a bonnet so we asked our favourite Milliner Katty Janneh to run an Easter accessories workshop.

Chick fascinators were the order of the evening....

Momtaz and Sheree modelling their new hair pieces.

You can see Sheree's creations properly here. Cheep cheep!

Nasreen also had a good hair day, She left with these beauties:

More amazing makes alert alert! These girls made Faberge Eggs & fascinators?

Did we just say Faberge Eggs? Oh yes!

Rich people eat your heart out, we made ours from polysterene eggs, PVA glue, toothpicks, glitter, sequins and gemstones.

 In Collage Corner you could even make a basket to take your eggs home in.

Or make Easter Cards.

And no....boys were not forgotten! There's always something the lads will love at our Craft Night. As well as showing the girls how to make Easter Fascinators, Katty helped the boys make bow-ties.

Between them Aiyaz & Delwar made enough to have a market stall

As ever we also had crafters chilling out & doing their own thing. We totes fell in love with these AMAZING Bat themed gloves by Max. 

And good news about our DJs The Spinning Yarns...

They now have their own business cards which incidentally are the coolest cards ever.

There's no excuse not to book them for your next party now they are all official.

Missed our Easter Craft Night?

Don't worry, there's more making & taking next month.

We'll be back at the Hackney Attic on Tuesday April 30th for our Treasure Island Jewellery Making Special.

Hope to see you then xx