Moomin Characters and iconic, London-based floral design company, McQueens, are partnering up to offer free flower crown making workshops to celebrate midsummer and the start of festival season.

The workshops will be held at the Moomin Shop in Camden Stables Market on Saturday 29th June from 12 noon to 4pm. Attendees will learn which blooms make for the best designs and how to combine flowers into a stylish crown in the midsummer tradition.

Flower crowns are an important part of the midsummer celebrations in Finland, where Moomin creator Tove Jansson lived and worked. She was photographed wearing her own flower crown on the island of Klovharu, in the Finnish archipelago, where she spent every summer. The natural world was a big influence on Jansson, and flora and fauna feature largely in the Moomin stories she wrote and illustrated.

The flower crown making workshops, led by McQueens florist Henry Tai, will take place at the Moomin Shop in Camden Stables Market on Saturday 29th June at 13:00, 14:00 and 15:00. The sessions are free to attend but places are limited. Book through Eventbrite. Photo credit: © Moomin Characters ™