DIY - Leather guard for gear shift lever

I suddenly had an urge to do something about my car’s sad looking interior and decided to start with the gear shift lever guard yesterday.
With enough determination, some planning, measuring, several hours spent swearing with the sewing machine and 15€ used on the materials.
It wasn’t very demanding but it did test my nerves a few times. Especially getting the shift knob out (and back on) was a rather simple but strenuous task. Rotating the knob 45 degrees and pulling it upwards.
“Should be easy enough.” - I thought, but the amount of force required to gain sufficient grip on the knob (in order to apply the rotating movement) could have easily strangled a person. not even mentioning how much force it required to make the damn thing turn.
Rest was just undoing plastic clips, torx screws, metal clamps and unplugging few cables to get the panel out, simple stuff.
With the old leather guard out I proceeded to take it fully apart to take the measurements for the (fake)leather pieces, which I had a pleasant time sewing together cough - sarcasm - cough.

And before installing everything back on I spent some time cleaning the hard-to-get-to places.
Working on the car’s interior is pretty comfortable in these French cars,

When I have the time I’ll give the shift knob some well deserved attention too ^^