Imag­ine if you will,  40 tables  stacked full of vin­tage fab­ric from the 1950s and 1960s,  and lace from the 1920s.  Add in all sorts of delight­ful sewing acces­sories like but­tons and vin­tage pat­terns and you start to get an idea for what the bian­nu­al Fab­ric-a-brac sale  is  all about

It’s being held this Sat­ur­day 19 May 2012, 9am to 12.30pm at St Anne’s Hall, Emmett St, (close to bus stops and easy park­ing) New­town, Welling­ton.

The stall­hold­ers stack their tables with fab­ric they no longer need, so it can find a new home. They come from Welling­ton, Christchurch, Napi­er and Palmer­ston North and range from pri­vate sew­ers to small cloth­ing, acces­so­ry or uphol­stery busi­ness­es.

Anoth­er impor­tant aspect of Fab­ric-a-brac is its huge fundrais­ing efforts for the Mary Pot­ter Hos­pice — so far Fab­ric-a-brac has raised around $10,000 in total.

You’ll see many a table sell­ing donat­ed fab­ric and notions to raise mon­ey for Mary Pot­ter Hos­pice here in Welling­ton. Now more than ever it’s a good time to come along and spend at Fab­ric-a-brac or donate online  as this week’s rain flood­ed their Porirua store destroy­ing tens of thou­sands of dol­lars worth of stock that is sold at the hos­pice shops in Welling­ton. Iif you can’t make it to any event why not con­sid­er donat­ing to hos­pice, every tiny amount helps

But wait there’s more -
There will also be two work­shops on Fri­day 18th, the night before, host­ed by World of Wear­able Art Awards sec­tion win­ner and Good Morn­ing host Fifi Col­ston, and the woman behind tiny hap­py, Melis­sa Wat­sney.

Both Fifi and Melis­sa are huge­ly cre­ative peo­ple and  incred­i­bly inspir­ing crafters, so the chance to learn from both in one night is pret­ty spe­cial and it’s only $8 per ses­sion, $16 in total and all mon­ey going to the Mary Pot­ter Hos­pice.


6.15pm – 7pm = It’s in the bag – shoul­der bag tuto­r­i­al with Melis­sa Wast­ney
7.15pm – 8.15pm = Cel­e­brate your fab­u­lous fab­ric finds with Fifi Col­ston (and some ideas for what to do with them)

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