(Thursday, 30 May 2024)
It’s time to save the date and start sorting out your sewing stash ready for Fabric-a-brac Marlborough 2024. Fabric-a-Brac is a market that brings together sewers, quilters, crafters and other fabric fans to buy and sell vintage and modern fabric and sewing supplies.
This year’s Marlborough event will be held on Saturday 17 August at Connect Blenheim on the corner of Beaver Road and High Street, running from 10am till 1pm. Stallholders will be selling their collections alongside Hospice Marlborough who will be selling all donated materials. Stallholder applications are now open and the Hospice Shop in Redwoodtown is accepting donations of all sewing related items.
“Fabric-a-brac brings out fabric-a-holics from far and wide looking for inspiration for their next project,” says Tracy Johnston the Fabric-a-brac Marlborough coordinator (pictured).
“We love that interior designers, upholsterers and sewing store owners also get on board donating fabulous fabric to support the event. It has also become the perfect place for family to sell on or donate a loved one’s treasured collection knowing it is going to appreciative new homes. This means we have the ultimate combination of old and new treasures on offer.”
Fabric-a-brac events fundraise for their local Hospice. In 2024 the event will be held in ten locations around New Zealand. To date, the event has raised over $161,000 for Hospices across New Zealand. Fabric-a-brac Marlborough has raised over $19,000 since it started in 2021.
The Fabric-a-brac Marlborough event is run and generously supported by volunteers and businesses who contribute their time and resources to help maximise the fundraising potential of the event. Connect Blenheim continue to provide the venue free of charge, Signs Now Picton is printing posters and Flooring Xtra Blenheim has stepped in to help sort and measure all the fabric donated to the Hospice Shop, so it is ready for sale on the day. A team of volunteer bakers will also be putting on their pinnies to bake and serve at the pop-up café at the venue. This allows every dollar earned from the pop-up cafe, stallholder fees, gold coin donations, raffles and sales of fabric on the Hospice tables to go directly back to Hospice Marlborough.
Hospice Marlborough welcome the funds raised from the event Events and Engagement Lead Leigh Somerville says “With a funding shortfall of $850,000 this year, we simply couldn’t continue to provide the specialised palliative care services our region deserves, free of charge, without the generous support of our community and fundraising partners like the awesome Fabric-a-brac team. We truly appreciate all the hard work and effort that goes on behind the scenes, and we’re eagerly gearing up for, and looking forward to another epic Fabric-a-brac event come August”
Donations of fabric and sewing supplies can now be dropped off at the Hospice Shop in Redwoodtown until 10 August during their opening hours, Monday to Friday from 10am–4pm and Saturday 10am-1pm.
To book a table to sell your stash visit Fabric-brac Marlborough.
- Fabric-a-brac Marlborough
- Date: 17 August 2024 10am – 1pm
- Venue: Connect Blenheim, Cnr High Street and Beaver Road, Blenheim
- Gold Coin donation on entry welcomed
For more information, contact Fabric-a-brac Marlborough, Tracy Johnston on (021) 749-368