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Deborah Lough
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012. I may not be writing that much on this blog for the next few weeks. I'm in the manic run up to the re-enactor's market now (TORM), so will have my head down working, and trying to keep up with college work, too. As part of the new brief I got from college last week, I've set up another blog (an experiment in the recording of and expanding on research) - I'll be writing on that, because it's homework! You can read that here http:/ debbieloughmillinery.blogspot.com/. She wanted t...
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Deborah Lough: Festival of History (Kelmarsh, or Kelswamp?)
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012. Festival of History (Kelmarsh, or Kelswamp? In theory I was meant to have my stall at English Heritage's Festival of History at Kelmarsh Hall this weekend just gone. Well, I was there, and my stall was there - unfortunately most of the stuff was never unpacked from the plastic boxes I left it in after unloading our van on Friday night. And I'm now off to find some new wellies - although waders may have been more useful in some parts of the site at the weekend. Waterproof boots ...
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Deborah Lough: "What have we done?"
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Wednesday, 4 April 2012. What have we done? What have we done? The question repeatedly asked by Mary Portas in her Channel 4 series 'Mary's Bottom Line'. I watched all three episodes back to back on 4OD this morning, while I was hand sewing. And I have to confess it really got to me. As I was sitting, in Britain, hand sewing my English wool and Irish linen with my British thread and British needle. All this in an area that a few decades ago was a key centre of the British textile industry. When they're i...
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Deborah Lough: Modern Vehicle Pennants
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012. My most recent work - a set of five vehicle pennants (aka flags). This was a private commission for an officer of the Grenadier Guards (of the British Army) who is currently serving in Afghanistan. There are four smaller pennants, and one larger. All are machine embroidered, onto linen fabric, and are triple stitched for strength. My plan is to re-embroider the crown and the rose as a sample that I can photograph to show the detail, so watch this space! The Padded Armour Company.
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Deborah Lough: Happy New Year!!
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Thursday, 2 January 2014. I'm not officially back at work until next week, (and am not that web-present at the moment, as my laptop is still. At the menders), but wanted to briefly say 'Happy New Year' to everybody! As you'll have seen, if you've read the rest of my blog, 2013 was rough for me, but Ill be starting out on 2014 on Monday with lots of hope for it being much better. Thank you to everybody who's been kind to me during the horrible times! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Deborah Lough: The blue hat...
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Thursday, 13 October 2011. Is now finished and in for marking. I don't have any pictures of it completed yet, because I managed to make the deadline for the college brief clash with a work deadline, and had no spare time for photographing, so it'll be a few weeks till I can take some. Anyway, until then, some more 'in progress' photos that I haven't shared yet. Obviously, the other option would have been to make a hat with a shorter crown, but I wanted to learn how to extend it, so decided against that.
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Deborah Lough: Possibly slow comms for the next few days...
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Monday, 3 October 2011. Possibly slow comms for the next few days. My communications may be slightly off for the next few days / weeks. I may be less likely than I usually am to pick up the phone or answer the door. Usually, that's because I simply can't hear either when I have machines going, (I've been known to have the phone on the table beside me and not hear it ring). Anyway, upshot being that anybody calling is even more likely than usual to get the answering machine, and we'll get back to you!
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Deborah Lough: My blue hat finished!!
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Saturday, 22 October 2011. My blue hat finished! We've had them returned now, athough we haven't got the grades yet (yikes! So I've now had time to take some decent photos of my first proper hat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Padded Armour Company. My blue hat finished! Possibly slow comms for the next few days. Falcon and fetterlock livery. View my complete profile.
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Deborah Lough: Hat project number two...
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Saturday, 21 January 2012. Hat project number two. I just realised that I never posted about my second hatmaking brief. That's very bad of me, and I will slap myself on the hand, because it was finished in November, and displayed at the Knitting and Stitching Show, at Harrogate, on the college stand. The brief title was 'Where in the World'. It was all about using visual communication, and communicating ideas through design. I listened to a radio interview about the Arctic Convoys during World War II, an...