embroidery sampling......one euro up cycle

I have to make an embroidered waistcoat for my nephew (irish dancing season again) and this time its velvet, which I have minimal experience in embroidering (and slightly adverse to sewing velvet in general).  I was on the look out for velvet in the charity shop to make the waistcoat, and while there spotted this black top.  Its a stretch mock suede and a nice shape, and I thought it would be useful to do an embroidery sample on textured stretch fabric and also to check if fabric glue would work as an alternative to top hooping fabric.

I put vilene on the hoop and put glue in place and then basted the fabric/top in place.  I used a 'Flores' motif from Urban Threads.  The middle motif is slightly off balance, but in all it turned out fine..... so including oodles of mistakes including,

finding out

• I should have marked out the design on the vilene
• the re-spooling of the indian embroidery thread was a good idea but it is still crap thread
• the blue usb key should not be used as it stopped working half-way through the third embroidery
• noting the stitch count is always a good idea (when having to turn machine on and off when usb gave up)

I did also find out a free way to do basic edits (edited out birds in design), so as learning curves go, this one was easy enough, and on the up-side, at least the velvet fabric is a woven!