Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

Upon completing the first display section I felt it was too large – so it became the rod pocket. The second display unit was complete with my embroidery machine. I could not face cutting all those little back pieces again. When I finished the top (white borders without the crayons yet) a couple of my critics suggested putting numbers on the calculator keys. It was turning to Winter so this project was put away. Almost a year later I pulled it out to work on it again. I changed the borders to a brown fabric and added the crayons. I decided to take my critics’ advice and add numbers to the keys. I had most of the numbers embroidered on when I realized that the numbers on a calculator are not in the same position as the numbers on a telephone. I had used the telephone placement. I had to unpick the 1, 2, 3, and 7 and embroidery them in the correct place. Luckily the 4, 5 and 6 are in the same position on either device. I also did away with the “%” key and moved the “X” key to make room for the “0” key.