Palmerston North

2024

We’re back at Crossroads Hall for the Palmy Fabric-a-brac in 2024. It’s always a wonderful atmosphere in Palmy, with lots of great finds waiting to be, well, found!

About Fabric-a-brac Palmerston North

10am-1pm Saturday 14 September 2024
Crossroads hall, corner of Church and Cook Sts, West End, Palmerston North

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 Palmerston North event started in 2010 – not long after the first event in Wellington was run.

Fabric-a-brac is volunteer-run, and is a fundraiser for hospice – in Palmerston North this is Arohanui Hospice. All profits from this event are donated to their work.

Selling fabric

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.

If you have fabric, haberdashery or patterns you’d like to move on, but don’t want to have a table, you can donate (locations TBC). This will all go onto the hospice table on the day, and all profits will go to their wonderful work.

Apply to be a stallholder

Pop-up cafe

There will be tea, coffee and sweet treats for sale in our pop-up cafe, 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 many of the stallholders will be selling by cash only.

GOLD COIN ON ENTRY IS APPRECIATED.

If you are looking for some new inspiration for future projects, great bargains, funky old fabric and quirky bits – Fabric-a-brac is for you. Come along and pick up some fantastic sewing-related bargains.

Helping us promote the event

If you can, we’d love your help to promote the event. 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!

Download the Palmerston North poster

Why make the trip?

You may not know this, but Palmerston North has been a veritable hub of quilting and crafty activity since way back when. Ann Packer in her lovely book ‘Crafty Girls’ Road Trip’ testifies to this. There’re also some great op shops and material shops.

If you want to make a day of it, there are some great little treasure troves to explore once you’ve spent your Fabric-a-brac budget.

to find out more about the event, take a look at some of our great media coverage and photos from previous events or listen to the podcast.

Join the mailing list, Facebook or Instagram

To be kept up to date on Palmy news, join the Fabric-a-brac mailing list.
You can also join us on social – Facebook or Instagram.

2023

In 2023 we raised $4,600 – all donated to Arohanui Hospice. We love this community and the fun vibe at these events and are so delighted to be able to help such a great cause. Special shout out to the Warrington whānau for donating all proceeds from their stall to Hospice. Thank you to our lovely stallholders, volunteers, fabric buyers and the support from Arohanui Hospice and Arohanui Hospice Shops.