forget fireworks this is an explosion of fabric

Kind of inspired about get­ting into mak­ing post-Craft2.0?

Well if fab­ric is your thing, then Fab­ric-a-brac is the place you want to be this Sat­ur­day

From WoW win­ners and fash­ion design­ers to Christchurch earth­quake evac­uees and but­ton obses­sives, the stall­hold­ers at this weekend’s fab­ric-
a‑brac event will be part of the biggest fab­ric-a-brac event ever.

Any­one who sews will want to be there to pick over the more than forty tables of vin­tage fab­ric and sewing acces­sories from crafty peo­ple as far
as Christchurch, Napi­er and Palmer­ston North. Sewing scis­sors will be sharp­ened on the spot, there’ll be tea and cof­fee and free pat­terns.

The last event in Welling­ton raised $2,700 for Mary Pot­ter Hos­pice, with Fab­ric-a-brac events rais­ing near­ly $10,000 in total for the hos­pice so far.

Stall­hold­ers, who range from pri­vate sew­ers to small cloth­ing, acces­so­ry or uphol­stery busi­ness­es take a table to sell items they no longer want. There are also tables sell­ing donat­ed fab­ric to raise mon­ey for the hos­pice.

The fab­ric upcy­cling event that start­ed in Welling­ton has gone inter­na­tion­al with a fab­ric-a-brac held in Bris­bane in ear­ly Sep­tem­ber and one to be held in Syd­ney on 12 Novem­ber, all to raise mon­ey for Mary Pot­ter Hos­pice.

See you at Fab­ric-a-brac!

9.15am to 12.30
Sat­ur­day 5 Novem­ber 2011
St Anne’s Hall, Emmett St,
New­town, Welling­ton