Out and about

Hello there.  I have come across one quilting event on this weekend:

**KILMORE QUILTERS INC. - QUILT-IN**
When: Saturday, 11 October; 10am - 4pm
Where: Kilmore Memorial Hall
What: $5 entry. All welcome. Quilts on display, guest speaker, morning and afternoon tea, BYO mug and hand stitching, raffles and door prizes, trading table. Enquiries: kilmorequilters@live.com

Other non-quilting events include:

**BUTTONFEST**
When: Saturday, 11 Oct; 9.30am-3.30pm
Where: Burwood Heights Uniting Church, cnr Burwood Hwy & Blackburn Rd.
What: Annual exhibition & sales day. Further queries: http://www.vicbuttonclub.com.au/buttonfest-2012

**THE BIRREGURRA FESTIVAL**
When: 11 and 12 October
See: http://www.birregurra.com/index.php/weekendfestival/festival for details

AND for other textile related events, as detailed on The Australian Forum for Textile Arts (TAFTA) website (http://tafta.org.au/vic-news-events/):

The Basketmakers of Victoria (BOV) - Biennial Victorian Basketmaker’s Exhibition at Quadrant Gallery 62 Barkers Road, Hawthorne from 2-25 October 2014. The exhibition is titled Natural or Knot.

COLLECTIVE NOTIONS will hold an exhibition of works by their 14 members at Steps Gallery, Carlton from Oct 4-15. The show is titled ‘Point of View’ - a new show of diverse art work in fibre, textile and mixed media in 2014 where we continue to push boundaries of concept and art.

UNDRESSED: 350 Years of Underwear in Fashion is at Bendigo Art Gallery until October 26th. Featured are highlights from the V&A Museum’s extensive collection of underwear, dating from 1750 to the present day. “The exhibition looks at the history of private and intimate clothing from corsets to court mantuas and boudoir wear to bustles exploring underwear’s function in decorating and manipulating the body.”

FROM THE HOME OF MIRKA MORA is showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art until 9 November. Drawn from the treasure trove of her private collection of paintings, soft-sculpture dolls, tapestries and sketchbooks, the exhibition brings a sense of Mirka’s home to Heide II, the modernist home of the Reeds.

TEXTILES @ WANGARATTA ART GALLERY To 19 October - Material Edge: Contemporary Textiles. The gallery is open 12-5 Mon/Tues; 10-5 Wed/Fri and 12-15 on Sat/Sun.

TarraWarra Biennale 2014: Whisper In My Mask. Curated by Natalie King and Djon Mundine.  On until 16 November 2014 at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville Victoria.

Manningham Art Gallery is staging a Touring Exhibition, Ten Years of ‘en plein air ‘ tapestries by Cresside Collette – this show of Australian Sri Lankan and French landscapes will be at Manningham Art Gallery until 15th November. An artist floor talk is set for Saturday 11th October at 2pm and on the Saturdays of 1, 8 and 15 November you can be present at the gallery, learn how to weave a tapestry and contribute to a panoramic tapestry of the view from Doncaster Hill.

Vanished Into Stitches at the National Wool Museum, 26 Moorabool Street, Geelong until 7th December - textile works by Ruth Marshall.  Australian marsupial skins (knitted, and life size) are included among the other knitted animal pelts that will be shown, all of them representing endangered species as well as being ‘objects of wonder’.

You may want to check related websites to confirm details regarding the above events.

Have a great weekend and thanks for reading!