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
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