I was blessed to be a volunteer working on the Behold Catholic Women's Conference. A part of my job to help get all the items needed to celebrate Mass. We were able to use the temporary altar from the diocese (in my breakfast room, whoa!):
We were very grateful to have an altar, but we were also was hoping for a little bit of a different look for the stage than the ornate legs and something that had a more solid and larger presence in the large conference room. So I volunteered to "whip up" an altar cover (the white cloth that would go under the blessed top cloth.) It ended up being a little bit of a challenge,
but one I gladly took on and it ended up working out very well.
So here's a pic before the cloth was hemmed:
[And yes these are late night photos a few nights before the conference
after I was able to get the altar from the Cathedral.]
How I didn't get a picture of the final Mass set up I don't know! I'm gonna have to see if I can find one. Here it is in the background of a picture taken by the Catholic Post: Catholic Post Behold Pics
The challenge in this project came in that I couldn't find a cloth large enough to cover the altar without sewing. I ended up having to sew the 4 side panels and top together. In order to make it look nice on the corners I made each side a trapezoid. Then I trimmed the corners so that they hung nicely rather than come to a point. Lots of math, sewing and pressing went into this baby. As always I'm so happy to be serving and learning at the same time :)
