u/theMad_Owl

Hello! The patch...is done! It is so shiny when held up against the light :D This is my fourth embroidery project total, second without a kit.

Things that went well:

I really loved the beading
All black is made from 4 strands of random black sewing thread I was handed (after someone died I think? Many random sewing supplies) and it worked much better than I thought. In comparison to the shiny gold it really looks like a void
I was very scared the texture of the glass wouldn't work out as I had imagined, but I think it looks really cool now, I hope you agree
The words are decipherable! Stitching those small letters was terrifying haha

Things that did not go well:

Can you spot that bright blue bead? Yeah, that's acrylic paint. It used to be silver but the silver scratched off while embroidering D:
The upper metallic base is made using a split backstitch and it ended up way too thick. Broke needles, struggled so much. The bottom one I used a normal split stitch for and it was much easier to get through
The white sparkles were a nightmare though. I did them last and by that point there were so many stitches on the back i felt like I was trying to embroider concrete in that area
The "satin stitches" at the side warped a little when finishing the patch. They're actually 2 layers of long and short stitch and then they're couched down 3 times horizontally by weaving up and under through the long stitches. I was hoping to keep them somewhat straight and preserve the texture, but it didn't work that well.

The plan for this is to go on an overshirt that I'm still embroidering on to finish it, I'll post that once it's done!