I finished my first 'personal' project tonight. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot with this one and the next one will be much better because of it. Like I said it isn't perfect but I'm very pleased with it for a first attempt:
The stitching is a bit botched in two places, if this was going to someone I would have pulled it and restitched it which would have also allowed me to fix the 'roll' I should have caught as well.