You might notice our newsletter is a little later than normal. That's because we've been at Festival of Quilts today!

Yesterday was set-up day and after many hours hauling boxes and scaling ladders, all the quilts and mixed media pieces were displayed on walls, hung from the ceiling, or arranged on plinths.

More than 180 Portrait Shuffle canvasses were mounted around four walls of the exhibition space and were looking superb. Thanks to Jamie and Graham for all their hard work with the staging! If you are coming to the show over the next 3 days please do come and take a look - we're sure you'll be impressed with it all.

The Portrait Shuffle has so far raised nearly £2000 for Save the Children and with a donation bucket at the show there is still time to increase the final total for such a worthy cause. Annabel and I are taking turns to paint more portraits 'live' on the stand in between chatting with all the visitors. It has to be said, there's an awful lot of talking so we'll have to see how much painting we can manage - please come and see how that goes!

Here I am at the very beginning - there have to be poppies in there somewhere!

Annabel has been painting too but here I've caught her chatting with visitors to the stand.


This is a detail of the quilt I prepped for painting at the show - watch this space and keep your fingers crossed to see how it will be transformed over the next 3 days.

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Love Laura