This weekend I finished assembling the little bag that I decided to use my embroidery sample for. Instead of a pretty but useless piece of embroidered wool, I have a usable bag.

Each individual part came out well, and the bag feels pleasingly solid. But the overall result is not what I had hoped for. The embroidery looked better when it lay sleek and flat. Forcing it into a three-dimensional object inevitably made it bunch and bend. If I decide do more of this, then I need to find a design that keeps the embroidered parts more separate from the fussier parts of the product, all the zippers and corners and such. Maybe by framing the embroidery with plain fabric?