Fabric-a-brac logoKind 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