and then I tie it all up with a neat bow.

This is what I'm talking about! My book deals with existential artificiality as defined by Rafael Capurro.
Firstly, it is a book and because all books are created and the characters are fictional.But because the characters are created from handwriting samples and the observations of them are obvious speculation (as, I think can be easily gather even from the fact that I don't decide on genders or names), which is a look towards the fact that I have created the lives of these people based on thinnly veiled assumptions formed through the very limited information that could be gleaned form their handwriting samples. This is something that we all do every day, constructing a large view/idea about people/places/things/the-world-at-large based on small amounts of information. Much of our understanding of ours lives is interpretation that we use to create the world that isn't clear to us. It's like (and this is liable to be the worst analogy you've ever heard) when you use the dust and scratches fixer on the Nikon cool scanners and it creates some extra image at the edge of your photo because it thinks that the white boarder is a big scratch.... except in life there is more scratch that we fill in with what we think are the right colours than there is actual information on the film our eyes are scanning.
The use of embroidery was a way for me to introduce my projections of the people without having to rely on the having photographs of real people that would make the connection between the writing samples and the character I created seem more real, and less like speculation.
Besides which, I wanted a strong handmade feel to the book.
My one disappointment with my book is that the cover doesn't open nicely because I didn't leave enough space between the main cover part and the spine. This is especially frustrating because I remade the back cover three times because I noticed mistake, I wish I had noticed this one with the front cover before the book was bound and I was out of time to remake it!.... Also the fact that I bled on it after I was stabbed by a needle