Coming up: Carnival Couture Craft Night 29th Sep 2015

Artwork: Sal Hughson

Come feel the crafty rhythm at our colourful craft night that celebrates all things Carnivalesque.

Make Venetian masks, musical instruments (before joining in our Attic musical parade), plus learn to knit and sew and have fun in our collage corner making carnival flags.

Our Craft Night is free to take part in and materials are provided but if you have any snazzy off cuts or fabrics or card or other collagey bits then we will always give it a home by letting everyone there use them.

As ever the night is drop in and we kick off at 7.30pm and craft through until around 10.30pm, so turn up when you can!

This month's guest tutors are Sincerely Louise (one of our regular crafty experts) and we are very excited to welcome Tree from You Tube Sewing Channel Stitchless TV.

Tree's channel has over 40,000 subscribers and her videos have been viewed by 2.8 million craft fans so we're honoured to have her join us for a carnival inspired sewing accessory workshop. 

Yo can also bring your own craft projects along to work on in a friendly environment, learn to knit or crochet in our knitting corner and have fun collaging while listening to our in-house DJs The Spinning Yarns while grabbing a drink in the bar. Food is also available.

Come alone or with friends, we look forward to #CarnivalCouture crafting with you.

Carnival Couture Craft Night, Tuesday 29th September 2015, 7.30-11pm, Hackney Attic, 5th floor Hackney Picturehouse Cinema, 270 Mare Street, Hackney, E8

Nearest stations: Hackney Central on London Overground, London Fields on National Rail plus plenty of buses

Highlights Hawaiian Holiday Craft Night

Our third birthday Makerversary was filled with aloho as we got into the hula spirit with a Hawaiian themed craft night.

Pineapple quilting with Barley Massey from Fabrications

Barley's workshop was spectacular. It involves hand-sewing a quilted pineapple patch as a homage to traditional hawaiian quilts. Afterwards we had a mini exhibition where we invited everyone to come and check out the masterpieces.

Charm braclets with Arliyah Hussain from Woven Jewels

Arliyah ran a fun workshop that would give high street stores like Top Shop a run for their money. Participants made sunshine embroidered jewellery with a fruity, tropical twist.

Lei-Making with Louise Walker

The ultimate accessory in Hawaii is a a lei, the traditional flower garlands that can be made into necklaces, cuffs and even headbands. Louise headed up the session which was super easy but had brilliant results, the kind of crafts we love!

Knit & Knatter

It was popular in the knitting corner and this month we witnessed some rather fabulous knitted pineapples being made.

Collage Corner

Over in our free-range collage corner, the pineapple crafts continued.

Tropical Tunes

On the decks we were joined by Matt and Matt aka All Hands On Decks and new member Rukia who even got us dancing on stage with their pic of summer sunshine songs.

Us on The Telly

Elsewhere we were busy being interviewed for LIVE TELEVISION! Founder Momtaz chatted about the night to London Live who put out live bulletins from the event - they also found out more about Barley. 

Birthday cake

And because it was a birthday there was a round of chocolate cake for everyone!

See you in September, we are back with a colourful Carnival Couture themed craft night on Tues 29th September, Hackney Attic from 7.30pm.

Coming up: Hawaiian Holiday & our 3rd birthday July 28th 2015

Designed by Sal Hughson

Yep, you read that right! It's our 3rd birthday!! Come and join our Hawaiian themed craft night.
Our special guest tutors are:

Textile legend Barley Massey from Fabrications, running a pineapple quilting workshop.

Jewellery designer Arliyah Hussain will be helping you make charms for cocktail glasses and to wear.

Celeb crafty queen Louise Walker will be ensuring you leave looking like a true Hawaiian with your very own lei flower garland.

As ever all materials are free, there's a bar & refreshments to purchase - a giant collage corner where you can craft to your hears content, bagfuls of yarn to play with in our Knitting corner where you can also learn to knit plus this month we have special guest DJs - All Hands On Deck.

Doors open 7.30pm and we craft through to 11pm.

Hope to see you there - all welcome, on your own or with friends or even colleagues : )

Address: Hackney Attic, 5th floor Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London, E8 1HE.

Highlights from our Spring Break Craft Night

There were bunny girls...

Creme egg warmers....

Colourful blooms and lots of happy folk...

...at our last craft night for a while! We are taking a short break from running London's busiest & friendliest craft night - back in July.

We also told you about a Kickstarter campaign we are involved in to raise money to make a digital craft book. You can support it here and watch the video we made at The Make Escape here. 

But until then than you for everyone who came to our Easter special, especially out guest tutors. 
Here are some more pics...

Papercrafts workshop with Studio Boo

Knitting corner

Embroidered eggs with Louise Walker

Easter goodies

We are back at The Hackney Attic on Tuesday 28th for our 3rd Birthday celebrations. See you then!

In the meantime if you want to get hold us it's best to Tweet us @TheMakeEscape.

Thanks : )