This is going to be one seriously over-crafted storage box. Just attaching the lining to the padding means meters and meters of hand-stitching over many, many evenings. The effort is out of all proportion compared to the artistic merit of the embroidered panels that started it all, or the cheap materials.

Thinking of it as stitching meditation, though, it’s a perfectly good use of time. The fact that I’m producing something potentially useful and decently pretty is a side effect.