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Calling all creative crafters and super-sewers – it’s nearly time for the fourth annual Fabric Rescue Market at Matakana Hall.
This year’s massive material sale takes place on Sunday, June 9 from 10am to 2pm and organisers are currently collecting donations of all sorts of unwanted fabric and haberdashery items from throughout the district.
The fabric rescue market was founded during lockdown in 2020 by Sue Monk, who was thinking about how waste fabric could be saved from landfill and redistributed in the community “where it could be upcycled into all kinds of amazing things, from clothing to crafting to upholstering to quilting, and anything else you can think of”.
The idea quickly took off and now many volunteers help with collecting, sorting, labelling and packing the thousands of metres of fabric and hundreds of sewing accessories donated every year.
Donations range from one-metre remnants up to whole bolts of fabric, or even entire sewing rooms full of material and craft items, together with wool, thread, needles, pins, patterns, zips, buttons, batting and more.
Organisers say all donations are handled with respect and it is a privilege to save them from landfill and give them new life.
Items are not priced – instead, fabric fans are asked to make a donation at the door, with proceeds used by the fabric rescue community to run classes, workshops and other sewing projects designed to share knowledge and keep sewing and related crafts alive and thriving.
Donations, which must be clean, undamaged and, if fabric, at least one-metre long, for this year’s market can be left at the following venues:
Warkworth – Warkworth Library; Coquette Street – contact Julie Tuck on 027 570 8151 for address.
Matakana – Matakana Cinemas foyer; Charlies Gelato Garden, Sharp Road.
Point Wells – Point Wells Hall.
Omaha – Omaha Beach Golf Club & Community Centre.
Leigh – back of Leigh Hall, Cumberland Street, Mondays and Thursdays, 9.30am to 11.30am.
Wellsford – Wellsford Library.
Snells Beach – The Food Market.
Sandspit – Beach Road – contact Sally Smith on 021 425 407 for address.
Info: Email fabricrescuemk@gmail.com or fabricrescuesewing@gmail.com, text Julie on 027 570 8151 or Sally 021 425 407 or Fabric Rescue on Facebook
