My friend is blind in one eye and has difficulty similar to what you have. She bought a sewing machine that has all those new features on it so make life easier for her and it helped her great. But if that is financially a problem I would advise to buy a Daylight lamp. It makes such a difference if you have good lightning with your machine or for hand work. I bought it myself too as I was diagnosed to become totally blind due to diabetes, but it didn't happen to be correct at this time. It still can happen, but not now. But I didn buy myself some extra supplies as magnifing glasses and a daylight lamp. I still use those to my pleasure although I can see better. My eye sight was still correctable with new glasses for this time.