Exeter Steampunk's November Convivial on November 7th

Michael Farley, of Exeter Steampunk,  invites everyone to enjoy a convivial STEAMPUNK evening at the Cowick Barton in Exeter, at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 7th November
"It's the first Tuesday of the month, so why not join us at the Cowick Barton for Exeter Steampunk's November Convivial? Everybody's welcome (the more the merrier)..."

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.

Steampunkjunk Poster

Please can you paste the link for this post around the internet? and print&display the poster somewhere?
Thanks

Steampunk hat workshop

Since St Paul's Church in Starcross is Victorian, we will bring the first of our VICTORIAN STEAMPUNK HAT WORKSHOPS to the Devon Historic Churches Day on Saturday 12th September. 9am - 4pm. We invite you to come dressed in full steampunk regalia. There will be no charge for this fun workshop which is both  for adults and children, but the steampunkjunk to create your hats will be on a Bring  and Buy basis. You can bring your own hat to steampunkup, and share ideas, or perhaps you'll spot some 'I must have that' steampunkjunk you'll have to buy.

The children will also be able to make Victorian mobcaps with a circle of material and ribbon, or tophats with cardboard and cellotape. They might like to add a few cogs&feathers.

Some of the Starcross steampunk hats here pictured have taken weeks to produce. They are works of art. Can you spot the one with the REAL GLASS EYE?

If you want to bring a hat to embellish with steampunk stuff, we will have lots of it on sale: clocks, dials, cogs, feathers, flowers, lace, net, zips, spectacles. We'll also sell some hats for you to work on.
For a small donation, you will be able to make a simple hat: a circle of fabric and ribbon will make a mobcap; some card stapled together will make a topper. But you can still add some wackiness if you buy some of our ridiculous decoration. You might just want to buy items to work on at home.
What is steampunk? It's a celebration of the Victorian era: their way of life, inventions, literature, explorations and fashion.

For the workshop, we need more hats; men's women's and children's. Flat caps, bowlers, top hats, wedding hats, straw boaters, velours, safari hats, berets, military caps,  - any hat can be adapted to steampunk.
We need more things to add to the hats: anything already mentioned PLUS: pieces of engineering such as bicycle parts, rubber tubing, telescopes, magnifying glasses, maps, screws, nuts&bolts, buttons, cotton reels, locks, keys, handles, sewing items and safetypins.
We also need: material, cellotape, glue, string, thread, wool, ribbon, tape, and perhaps you have scissors and staplers we could borrow.
And we might need some help on the day.

The materials we don't use will go into future workshops.

Devon Historic Churches Day Saturday 12th September

As part of Devon Historic Churches Trust's Devon Historic Churches Day, St Paul's will be open from 9am - 4pm on Sat 12th Sept.

The wonderful folk at St Paul's will be serving bacon baps from 9am - 12 noon. The wall hanging will be on display, and literature on the history of the church.

The Starcross Wall Hanging. Each 1foot square illustrates an aspect of our village life

Embroidery of the square depicting the new memorial garden for the Royal Western Counties Hospital

Starcross History has been invited to bring a display. The last time we went to St Paul's, we had a workshop to make feathers for The Swan of the Exe. This time, we'll have a workshop to make Victorian hats: mobcaps, from a circle of material and some ribbon; and top hats using card. Maybe we'll add a touch of modern with old sunglasses, camera bits, clockbits, feathers and GEARS... -  steampunk tophats? 

 

 

We'll ask for a donation towards the cost of materials. We'll get some of them from Exeter Scrapstore, which we joined as a group when we needed some white netting for the wings of our swan.

Please can anyone help on the day? We also need material and card and steampunk hat accessories; more scissors, staplers bodkins and cellotape too. Thanks.

Steampunk hat stuff we would like

• old hats
  feathers
  old sunglasses
  old glasses
  nuts
  bolts
  gears
  cogs
• smashed clocks and watches (not digital)
• anything else you can think of which would have been around in the Victorian era
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What is steampunk? Wiki has the answer - it's about Victorian fantasy. Jules Verne. fantastic inventions. Victorian technology.

Steampunk hats can be quite expensive steampunk hat on ebay