Old 07-13-2013, 11:03 AM
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Default Any ideas that can help a quilter with macular degeneration?

My Mom is 84 years young and is dealing with macular degeneration, the dry kind, and cataracts. She can't have the cataracts removed for fear of making the macular degeneration worse. She is a avid quilter and it's killing her not to be able to sew. She has tried magnifiers but the problem is not so much magnifications as blurriness, although if she could solve the blurriness a magnifier would probably be needed to. She can't see will enough any more to thread the needle on the machine and other small things we take for granted. Is anyone else dealing with this or know of anything that could help? She had given up driving and now to have quilting be gone as well....it's a huge loss for her. She is still crocheting so she can still keep her hands busy. But it would great to find something that would help her quilt again. Thanks!
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