Highlights Disco Fever Craft nIght

You came, you made sparkly stuff and you helped us raise £61.45 for mental health charity MIND, THANK YOU! 

Your Crafty Host Mumtaz with Special Guest Tutors Maria & Mia

Missed it, or want to rejoice in a recap of what we got up to? Here goes... 

Disco Ball Mania

Sal, who designs our amazing fliers donated us lots of lampshades & shimmering disco fabric which Mia miraculously turned into a disco ball workshop and wow, it was popular! 

Xmas cards

Super cute bears 

This project was one of the ideas you'll find on the MIND Crafternoon webpages. The charity is encouraging people to hold their own crafternoon events to raise money and to give you a helping hand, have designed some craft projects, including how to make a bear to show someone you are 'bearing them in mind'. 

Get the instructions here and make your own.

And lots of other awesome stuff too...

Star brooches 

Xmas embroidery

We also had our best soundtrack yet, courtesy of The Spinning Yarns DJs...

Alice, Dan & Isobel aka The Spinning Yarns

So that's it for 2016!
We're back WEDNESDAY 22nd FEBRUARY 2017 at The Hackney Attic. Yes! You read that right. After 4.5 years of being a 'last Tuesday' craft night we're now switching to last Wednesdays! 

We've still not decided on what the theme will be, if you have an idea, get in touch!

Merry Christmas and here's to a Crafty New Year!

Tues 29th November FREE Disco Fever Craft Night in London

Poster design: Sal Hughson

We hope you're in the mood to sparkle! Our final Craft Night of 2016 is DISCO FEVER - yup it's got a disco theme and not just in the soundtrack!

Workshops include Making Your Own Disco Ball with Guest Tutor, Designer Mia Little Wolf...


and a chance to get a head start on making your Xmas cards.

All materials are provided but if you have something sparkly at home you'd like to bring along to craft with then do!

Learn to knit, collage to your hearts content, make friends, get creative and most of all have fun. 

This month we are once again supporting MIND Crafternoon (last time we raised £59.38p!) - let's top that! Bring a donation for the night and spread the word, everyone is welcome.

See you Hackney Attic. All details on the flier above!
If you've like to help out on the night, run a workshop or have a questions drop us an email.

Highlights from our Art Of Africa Charity Craft Night

WOW! There was some serious creativity going down at our Art Of Africa Craft Night. Thank you to everyone who came, hope you are enjoying wearing and showing off your creations. Here's some pics from the night - we're so impressed with everyone's work!

And what's more, we raised £59.38 for mental health charity MIND. 

Read more about our night below...

WHY SO SHINY'S PENDANT WORKSHOP

Why So Shiny aka Elizabeth Joseph is a London based Graphic Designer & Jewellery Designer who specialises in running acrylic jewellery workshops. These run regularly around the capital and they really are fantastic sessions. As a taster of what you can do at one of her classes (which we highly recommend!), Elizabeth ran a pendant making workshop with wooden printed and acrylic shapes. Each one made was a masterpiece. We could open a Make Escape shop with them! Head to her website to find out when her next workshops are! 

KAREN ARTHUR'S EARRING WORKSHOP

Karen runs Reddskin Bespoke Womenswear where she makes you the dress or outfit of your dreams. An expert sewer her creations are made from gorgeous, colourful African print fabrics. There's always some scrap fabrics left over when you're clothesmaking and Karen kindly brought her remnants stash along for a special African fabric earring workshop. 

It was great to see you all wearing your original designs.

KNIT & KNATTER WITH ALISON BEADNELL

The wonderful textiles tutor and baker Alison Beadnell has run several workshops at our craft night before and this month she took on the knit & natter corner where three new people learnt how to knit having never picked up the needles before! WOW!

We were especially thrilled to see regular attendee Arnold who has also learnt to sew by coming to The Make Escape, now learn knitting too. 

Well done everyone. 

RAISING MONEY FOR MIND CRAFTERNOON

Our craft night has always been free and there are no plans to start charging but this month and at our next event we decided to support a fundraising initiative by mental health charity MIND who launched Mind Crafternoons. They are encouraging people to get together and craft - whether that's at home with friends, family, at a local community centre or even at work... and made a donation. 

At The Make Escape we are firm believers is the benefits of crafting, it's an instant de-stresser and we have encountered so many people will depression who have told us crafting and making has made them feel better. Supporting Mind therefore was an obvious decision. 

HOST YOUR OWN MIND CRAFTERNOON

Be a craft avenger like our Founder Momtaz and the ladies from Mind

Anyone can hold a Mind Crafternoon, all you need is some materials and projects to make, a venue and some participants. If you're not sure what you could make head to the Mind Crafternoon website where there are ideas forprojects to make which are great in the lead up to Christmas. 

SEE YOU IN NOVEMBER!

Our next craft night is Disco Fever on Tuesday 29th November. As usual it takes place at The Hackney Attic 7.30pm onwards. The event is free to attend but we will be supporting MIND CRAFTERNOON again so please bring a donation.

More details about the night to follow. Keep an eye on our Twitter account! 

See you there!

Momtaz

(and if you have any questions or want to get involved in helping run the night or run a workshop get in touch - email me any time! )