Name: Plant Your Pockets with Flowers – An Embroidery Workshop
Start: 2026-04-25T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-25T13:30:00-05:00
Location: Chicago Fair Trade Museum & Store

$Plant Your Pockets with Flowers \u2013 An Embroidery Workshop$

Join our beginner-friendly workshop led by fiber artist Alithea Tashey to learn how to embellish your clothes with hand-embroidered flowers!
About this Event

Just in time for spring, fiber artist extraordinaire Alithea Tashey will show you how to brighten up your wardrobe by filling your pockets with flowers – embroidered flowers, that is!

Bring a shirt with a pocket or any other item you’d like to embellish with hand-embroidered flowers to this beginner-friendly workshop at the Chicago Fair Trade Museum in Uptown. (You can also stitch on practice material if you prefer.) We’ll provide all embroidery materials, along with fair trade tea and snacks.

Stick around after this workshop for a free mending workshop, Repair to Rewear. We’ll stitch, chat, and take collective action during Mend in Public Day, an initiative of the world’s largest fashion activism movement, Fashion Revolution. Established in 2013 following the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, Fashion Revolution campaigns for a sustainable, transparent, and fair fashion industry free of worker and environmental exploitation.

What is Mend in Public Day?

Mend in Public Day is an annual day of creative resistance against disposable fashion. Across the world, people gather in public spaces to repair their clothes, spark conversations, and model a future where we make loved clothes last. By joining us, you’ll be part of Fashion Revolution’s global movement reclaiming repair as an act of care, sustainability, and solidarity.

About Conscious Closet Club

An initiative of Chicago Fair Trade, Conscious Closet Club is a community of Chicagoans exploring ethical fashion in all its dimensions—from garment care and repair to labor rights and responsible consumption. Inspired by Elizabeth Cline’s book The Conscious Closet, the group shares resources, learns together, and supports one another in building wardrobes that reflect our values.

Chicago Fair Trade (CFT) is a nonprofit promoting fair trade—an alternative business model that uplifts workers, protects the planet, and challenges exploitative supply chains and corporate malpractice. Through education, advocacy, and the world’s first fair trade museum, CFT empowers Chicagoans to build a more just and sustainable world.