Speaking of almost successful....

So I'm going on a trip soon, and I want to stash my dirty clothes in style. I decided I needed something more sophisticated to replace all my unsightly plastic bags. I liked the look of unbleached muslin and braided ties for my laundry sacks. But once they were done, they looked so...plain. So, using the smallest zig-zag setting on my machine (I have a 3/4 sized machine- 6 fixed stitch settings) I tried to "embroider".


Not so bad from a distance...but the up close shots show what happens when you try to do this with a machine like mine. I guess that I could probably pull this off a little better if my machine let me set stitch length and width. Or if I had a computerized embroidery machine ;)