2025
Thank you for all your support! We raised $7500 in September for Mary Potter Hospice.
About Fabric-a-brac Wellington
Fabric-a-brac is a fun fabric and sewing supplies market where you can shop for vintage and modern sewing and upholstery fabric, patterns, haberdashery and more. It brings the sewing community together to share stashes, stories and delight in our mutual love of textiles.
The first Fabric-a-brac was held in Wellington 15 years ago – we’re sew excited to still be here, bring the sewing community together and raising money for Mary Potter Hospice.
Fabric-a-brac is volunteer-run, and is a fundraiser for hospice – in Wellington this is Mary Potter Hospice. All profits from this event are donated to their work. We’ve raised over $80,000 since that first event in 2009.
Helping us promote the event
We’d love your help to promote the event. When the event date is set, you can download and print our poster – stick it up at your workplace, social groups or in your local cafe or shops. Thank you so much!
Selling fabric
If you have fabric, haberdashery or patterns you’d like to move on you can take a table at the event. You pay a stallholder fee (which goes to Hospice) and then you keep anything you make on the day.
You can also donate items. This will all go onto the hospice table on the day, and all profits will go to their wonderful work.
- When we have announced an event date you can donate items to the Mary Potter Hospice in Mein St (not the shops) or Made Marion.
Pop-up cafe
The fabulous cafe is back with all of its gorgeous volunteers and fab food. There will be tea, coffee and sweet treats for sale, so you can sit down and chat over your new projects and fabric purchases. All proceeds from the cafe also go to Hospice.
Buying fabric
BRING CASH as most stallholders and the cafe will be selling by cash only.
If you are looking for some new inspiration for future projects, great bargains, wonderful old fabric and quirky bits – Fabric-a-brac is for you. Come along and pick up some fantastic sewing-related bargains.
Join the mailing list, Facebook or Instagram
- To be kept up to date on Wellington news, join the Fabric-a-brac mailing list.
- You can also join us on social – Facebook or Instagram.
April 2025 total
Thanks to all our amazing customers, stallholders and volunteers, we raised $6325 for Mary Potter Hospice at our event in April 2025.
2024 event
Thank you to Made Marion Craft
As of 2024 we will have had the kind offer of storage space from Made Marion Craft and will no longer have to pay for storage. All the more for our Hospice donation 🙂
For future events – if you have a stash you’d like to sell, you can come and take a stall. You pay a stallholder fee (which goes to Hospice) but anything you make on the day is yours to keep. There is a ballot for tables – Wellington is always oversubscribed so bear this in mind when you apply, and if you don’t get in – consider our other events in Palmy, Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay.
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