Here is the finished hanging - hope you like it!
OHSue - the blanket stitch only adds about a sixteenth of an inch all round.
Fmhall2 - you make me feel like a spring chicken. It's the year the Queen acceded to the throne. I am one of the millions born during her reign. Few people can remember any other monarch. My grandmothers were born in the reign of Queen Victoria, lived through the reigns of Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI, and died in the reign of Elizabeth II. I don't think I will equal that!