David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au wrote:
Having read that I am wondering whether you might find a Magvu
easier. This is a magnifier which sits about 10cm out from your eyes
and can go over glasses and you can still watch TV over the top of
it. It comes with X2 and X4 lenses.
These
In the UK similar are sold by:
http://www.ceramicsrestored.co.uk/headbands.htm?
I have had mine for several years.
It has 3 interchangeable lenses.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au wrote:
Having read that I am wondering whether you might find a Magvu
Chantal,
My problem, right eye sight, I need to have my pillow, very close to my face.
Having read that I am wondering whether you might find a Magvu
easier. This is a magnifier which sits about 10cm out from your eyes
and can go over glasses and you can still watch TV over the top of
it. It
Another option is a magnifier / lamp - my father bought one of these and it
helped him through the last 4 years of loosing his sight (he still uses it to
cut his finger nails). His one had a shutter that came over the lens so it
didn't set fire to anything and you could change out the lens for a
Subject: Re: [lace] eyesight
Another option is a magnifier / lamp -
Liz Baker
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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 01:49:03 -0300
From: Chantal Cl chantal...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace and bad eyesight
Hi my fellow lacemakers,
It's a long long time, I did not write anything, but I'm staying loyal to the
group reading every day, your wonderful messages.
A few years ago, I lost my
Dear Alex et al,
This is exactly what I thought would be out there. Thank you so much for
sharing. I have met people who lost eyesight, and ended up just sitting, or
something close to it. That does not to happen. I especially like the
video camera option. One eye, if the sight is ok,
My mum had on e eye removed as a consequence of melanoma in 1981, and went on
to learn machine knitting (without anyone in the class knowing that she was
legally blin d), which involves a surprising amount of looking at the machine
and its needles to start and finish. She carried on with her
I have to jump in hereI made lace etc, for 30 + years...still do, on a
small scale . Like my father and one son, I have never had too working eyes.
I have driven a motor home all over this country. I know that I have no depth
perceptionbut one does adjust, sometimes a lot!!!
Doris
Dear Barbara,
Thank you so much for speaking up. Especially as a lurker. The more people who
don't have perfect vision, who have arthritis in their hands, whose hands don't
work as well as some others' speak up, the better the chance is that those who
have newly acquired this situation will
Don't know if someone else has mentioned it, but I'm sure there was mention
in a UK Lace Guild magazine some time ago of a blind lacemaker who used
prickings upside down so she could feel the raised bits on what is normally
the underside of pinholes.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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To
I would like to thank all of you for the encouraging messages and the beautiful
poem.
My problem, right eye sight, I need to have my pillow, very close to my face.
I tried a few times, trying to find the good way for me...
Tatting, I still made it, because I can bring the shuttle very close, idem
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