Join local textiles artist and professional costume designer Katie Taylor in a craft workshop where we will make our own pocket altar, a miniature, foldable textile altar. Using the magic of hand crafting, we will weave our intentions in using iconography, symbols, charms, embroidery and embellishments. Whether your altar is for a religious purpose or as a tribute to a zodiac sign, season, element or person, you can use them to manifest, for protection or as a lucky charm. The workshop will begin with forming a design idea - perhaps this is a colour palette, or a part of nature you would like to honour, or a person who means dearly to you. We will then move onto selecting our base fabrics, cutting, sewing and patching the fabrics together to form the base of the altar. Once this is sewn (glue can be used for less confident sewers!) we will begin to think about what decoration we would like to weave into the cloth, whether it be hand-embroidered symbols, pictures of the sun/moon etc. Finally, we will attach a button and loop for the closure, and your altar will be ready to take away with you! Beginner sewers welcome, all materials provided.

Event Length: 2.5 hours