Glorious damp stretching!

As you can see from the first two pictures, the love affair with damp stretching continues! You know, I think this has to be my favourite process in the entire cycle of creating with stitch and if you have never tried it I recommend it, you will also be hooked! I have a real sense of achievement getting to this point with swaddling band one. Now I am thinking about the lining, the inside, before I put all these pieces together.

I do have a concern though. With the main fabric piece being linen you can crease it just by looking at it! So, how am I going to pin, tack, machine stitch and construct the finished piece without it looking like a dogs dinner? I am not looking forward to crossing that bridge. The running stitch lines incidently were sewn using the thread from my stash, I was very restrained and didn't buy any more. There is a small glimpse lower down of how the appliqued piece looks next to the patchwork section, what do you think?

Amongst other things going on chez moi, like ironing, cooking, cleaning etc, there was a request from a customer which led to me gathering all my vintage scraps together to photograph. I love how they look but I also realise that my stocks are low, more shopping required!

Now a plea for information......I want to turn my blog into a book. Unfortunately Blurb does not support Blogger. I have looked for other companys but they seem really expensive so two questions,

Does anyone have another site I could try? and if not,

Is it possible to transport your blog lock stock and barrel to another host, including archives and everything?? I would be grateful for any tips, hints, advice etc etc.

Oh, and another request, does anyone know where I can get some really funky gift tags for christmas. I have trawled etsy and dwanda, I like dangly things, bells maybe, or plain but very unusual.

Finally......yes really......have a great week and GINA I haven't forgotten, honest!!!!

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