Finishing the Blue Tablecloth

This is more like me. School holidays often see me away from my loom, spending time with my special grandson Liam.  I always have to take hand work with me to do . . . there has to be more in life than ironing shirts!  This time I had the finishing to do on the big blue tablecloth, first hemming the ends and then faggoting the panels together with a featherstitch insertion.  When I have done this before I have 'just done it', keeping the spacing even in my hands without any device to keep the width even.  This time I felt that it may prove troublesome in such a big piece with the weight potentially causing a problem so I invented a system with a small, slim book and a couple of bulldog clips . . . like this.

It progressed well till about the last half metre when Puppy Piper tried to make a meal of the absolute last of the cotton.

Here is the before and after.  No, it did not fade in the wash, I just took the 'after' photo in bright light.  The cotton survived well enough but one of my precious LeClerc bobbins is gone forever.  Those splinters are sharp so Piper was lucky not to do herself an injury.  She is usually very well behaved but anything on the floor is fair game and I must have let it roll off so I guess I can't blame her.  How could I growl when she looks at me . . . .

Anyway, all's well that ends well, and here is the end of work on the blue cloth.  What will I do with it?  I hope it will end up in an exhibition of some sort sooner or later.