I also had a delightful day yesterday -- and went home with new ideas swimming in my head -- which I had to research later in the evening. I really liked the restaurant!
The answer to the printing question is not a simple one -- if your printer allows banner printing, then you can print a banner -- look under "banner printing" or "custom options" for creating a different size.
Photoshop's printing program allows you to set up parameters, but the work of "stretching" the photo is done in the program itself. The challenge you run into with something that is "out of proportion" to the original -- or in this case making it something that is 10x20 -- is that these proportions run counter to the "golden mean" -- in a big way. If you use Photoshop to resize, then you will get a proportional resizing -- and end up cutting off part of your picture, either when you print, or when you put it together in fabric. You may be able to turn off the proportional resizing, but I haven't done that.
The tricky part of printing in pieces and sewing it together is matching up the design. The reason it's tricky is that you have to "cut up" your photo within Photoshop -- making sure you get the size of the cuts EXACTLY equal -- otherwise the matching up doesn't go too well. Ask me how I know.
It can be done, and I always print it on paper to check the match before putting it on fabric. There is usually some waste of the fabric to do this, but my experience has been that this is nearly impossible to alleviate.
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