AudiForums.com - my attempt at diy shift knob reconditioning

ok well my shift knob was fading/cracking/peeling. i got tired of looking at it after cleaning interior so what i did was manned up and went to Joannes fabric and bought some fake looking leather sheet. it was the closest thing i could find..

i removed the shift knob from the boot and popped off the little emblem thing and cut the stitching from the original leather piece.

http://imageshack.us/a/img16/5681/img0895qi.jpg

then i cut the shape out on the fake leather fabric

http://imageshack.us/a/img22/2753/img0897i.jpg

here was my first failed attempt to create a spherical shape. notice the bump is too much.

http://imageshack.us/a/img339/3095/img0901cn.jpg

i tried again and sewed up a new one

http://imageshack.us/a/img526/5820/img0904c.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img577/2880/img0903us.jpg

the tape is on top to hold the shape of the sphere where the emblem goes while the glue dries. hopefully it will retain that shape when i remove the tape. i used liquid stich for the glue part.