Decadent android phone cozy -- kinda nsfw o_O

Maybe nsfw because of the slightly obscene and respectless scenery.
The decadent part certainly has to do with it being made from real cotton VELVET! I´ve been stashing two meters of real velvet (not that thrashy, regular goth poly crash velvety stuff) for ages and now it´s being put to a use. And not only once. It took me three tries (in numbers: 3) to get it right because I had the wrong (pearly, twisty) embroidery floss and the wrong technique for transfering the image. The android guy looked like a furred neanderthal which was not intended. I tried a weird iron-on-foil which resulted in one solid block of white on the material, showing not a single trace of the image. Meh. Botch.
After those mishaps I went back to my image-transfering-roots, doing it like I´ve done it for years. Never change a running sys!
That being said, I started drawing the image on thin transparent paper, then punching through/tracing it with a black gel liner on embroidery fabric:

*punch**punch**punch*

Then fasten the embroidery fabric w/ image on the piece and put it into the 3mbr01dery 100P:
Stitch-trace it with the floss and color of your choice. I divided the floss and only used two tiny strands as the fabric is so delicate.
Now comes the tricky part, well, sort of, as we don´t want the white fabric to stay on: Carefully start pulling the white fabric away, taking one thread at a time, trying not to cause too much damage to the embroidery. It helps to cut away the bigger parts of the white fabric before starting to pull out the threads. Aaand it helps to use tweezers (!) for the very small parts ´n threads. It will remotely look like this: Not neat. Looks kinda botchy. But we´ve achieved out main goal and that was transfering the image on the black fabric. In the next step I unraveled the image stitch by stitch and re-stitched it in a neat manner all from anew. I have no pics of this step as I was doing this in the middle of the night surrounded by a murderous heap of tiny white pulled-out threads. Same goes for the letters: re-stitch them with 1-2 strands of floss to make them look neato.

Once this is done finishing is a piece of cake: I took some additional fabric (thrashy black poly velvet.-D!) for the lining, sewing everything by hand. Braid three strands of embroidery floss for the closure solution, sew the tunnel on top and sew the sides with embroidery floss in the color of the image.
This is what it looks like out in the wild, wild reality:Quite a struggle. I´d never have thought how difficult it might be to transfer an image on black velvet, but, well, now I know. Now I have two botched pieces of black velvet to recycle into maybe flowers or other stuff...not sure yet. Anyways, if I´ll ever have to embroider a neanderthal, I´ll use this pearly, twisty floss, it´s perfect for furry effects.