Embroidery Combined With Felt

I drew this Queen of Hearts on a piece of yellow cotton fabric with the intention of practicing my embroidery and learning new stitches. It was sitting around for almost a year and I finally picked it up a couple of days ago. The background is so yellow, I added felt pieces to a couple of the larger areas on the dress to balance it out. My stitching will probably never be perfect because I tend to sort of draw freehand with the needle and thread instead of planning out the design in advance. Ahh, if I could only learn to have more patience!