Highlights from our Narnia Night of winter crafting

It was freezing and the trains were buggered up but we still managed a full-house for Narnia Night; our last event of the year which involved Aslan lion pom-poms, snow queen tree decorations and a surprise raffle won by the above lucky gent who took home a copy of Make It Your Own, the new book by local textile designer A. Alicia.

Knit & Knatter

'tis the season to get your needles out and for those who don't know how to knit, our fabulous volunteers led by Beryl from London's Knaughty Knitters taught some newbies how it's done...

While others came along to work on their own projects

We were particularly impressed by this crochet bauble

Braiding with Louise Reed

Louise can sometimes be spotted braiding at The Make Escape but this month she led a workshop showing others how to do it..

Our Suzi & Becky found a new fave craft

Stitched snowflakes with Alison Beadnell

Alison is a baker and crafter extraordinaire and this month she led a wonderful workshop on embroidered snowflake decorations.

They involved planning your snowflake design and embroidering over it.

Stitched Woodland Creatures

We welcomed some new lads to the Boys Corner

Check out the teeth on this giant ladybird!

A wise owl

A crafty fox

Regular Make Escaper Alan trying his hand at stitching

One very cute cat

Woof woof!

Beautiful bird with net tail

Another owl being constructed
Aslan Pom-poms with Sheree Robinson

Sheree put a while new spin on pom-poms

We also laid on our famous Collage Corner...

While wintery tunes were spun by resident DJs The Spinning Yarns

We were especially impressed by Isabel's Narnia snow boots

What a night!

We are taking December off (a New Year's Eve craft night would have been amazing but we also need a break, our first month off ever!)...but we look forward to welcoming you back on January 28th for our Chinese New Year special!

In a meantime we'd like to wish you a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A VERY CRAFTY NEW YEAR 

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