Steampunk Hat Workshop in St Paul's Church

Thankyou everyone for your support. We've now accumulated enough steampunkstuff for future workshops, but more donations can always be used

The materials gathered for this workshop included:

• Hats, watches and trimmings from The Attic, Baker's Yard, Alphinbrook Road, Alphington, Exeter EX2 8RG
• More hats from charity shops
• Spectacles
• Net, silver trimmings, gold card, ribbons and black fascinator bases from Exeter Scrapstore 
• Nuts, bolts, chains, tools 
• Material and leather pieces
• Feathers
• Buttons
• Jewellery
• a clock 

Look at this fabulous creation by a 6-year-old. He picked out the top hat, and arranged all the steampunk bits and pieces he fancied. Then we used a glue gun to fix them to the hat. Magic!

Steampunk creation

Here's what's on the marvellous topper:

spectacles
butterfly
bird
strawberry
2 zips
2 watches
2 green buttons
piece of a silver sock
a white metal clip

Here's the steampunkhat workshop in St Paul's

Steampunk hat workshop

St Paul's Church was open for the Devon Historic Churches Day
The newly completed Starcross Wall Hanging was on display. Village organisations and residents have each made a square. This is living history.

A leaflet about the history of Starcross Church was given out. St Paul's Church was originally the Holy Trinity Church in Chapel Hill in Exmouth. This church became too small for the increasing congregation, so it was demolished, and the stone was shipped to Starcross to build the Victorian St Paul's.
Photographs and comprehensive information about the history of Starcross was on a side table.