I have just finished making a hot water bottle cover which will be one of my Mum's Christmas presents.
It has been far more complicated than you would imagine - mostly because it is very tricky to add a drawstring channel at the top of something that has bias binding around the edges, but also because the first run of the embroidery went seriously wrong one colour before the end when the machine reset itself and I forgot that I had adjusted the position of the design in the hoop, and the second run went wrong because I forgot to reset it to the beginning and it started at the end with the wrong colour thread.
Extra brownie points to anyone who can spot the totally deliberate pun contained within it
... I'm relying on my Dad to point it out on Christmas Day.