Advice please - on topic - Page 4

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>> Ok - I've finally had to make the switch to readers and distance to correct
>> my vision enough to stitch, read and drive.
>>
>> Love the distance - I can do 80% of my normal daily stuff with them, even
>> the computer if I up the font size a few points
>>
>> Reading is a dream and stitching is getting better. But not fast enough for
>> me...I don't know if it because I hold my head differently to stitch than to
>> read. Or if I'm still too distracted by the TV not being in focus if I look
>> up...
>>
>> So any advice from those of you who use "readers" to stitch?
>>
>> Cheryl
>>
> Hmm- for me using the readers took a little practice. And I've made sure
> that I can see over the frames of mine - I look thru them to stitch, but if
> I'm in the TV vicinity, am able to raise my eyes above to look over. As
> you've said, may have to do with your head position, where your stitching is
> - are you in hand, or on a frame. For me, once I started using a stand of
> some sort - even my little lap stand - in my lap - keeping the piece a
> pretty constant distance for focal length - helped. Same reason I like
> using magnifier clamped to piece or stand - so it's not moving around and
> making me seasick ;^)
>
> Did you not get a pair of bi-focals so that you could do distance thru top
> and read thru bottom? I've actually seen some folks put readers on in front
> of their normal specs (distance, I guess). Maybe you'll have to do the
> bi-focal thing for stitching so that you can watch TV and stitch. My
> friends that wear them said it took some adjusting, but now love them.
> Personally, since I don't wear glasses for anything else except
> stitching/reading I don't have that disturbance when I peer over the top.
> Hope it all works out soon. Maybe it's going to books on tape or music for
> the other background when you're stitching instead of TV.
>
> Ellice in chilly NoVA
>

> Bifocals just didn't work - there are some folks that just don't make the
> adjustment. A big part of the problem was night driving for me - the
> headlights/taillights would starburst with the bottoms (also a problem
> with
> the combined script) and make night driving exhausting.
> Well - I'm off to read a bit before bedtime. Driving to and from the rink
> in
> the snow was tiring.

> Bifocals just didn't work - there are some folks

> the
> adjustment. A big part of the problem was night driving for me - the
> headlights/taillights would starburst with the bottoms (also a problem
> with
> the combined script) and make night driving exhausting.
>
> Well - I'm off to read a bit before bedtime. Driving to and from the
> rink in
> the snow was tiring.
>
> Cheryl

> Cheryl Isaak;841808 Wrote:
>> Bifocals just didn't work - there are some folks that just don't make
>> the
>> adjustment. A big part of the problem was night driving for me - the
>> headlights/taillights would starburst with the bottoms (also a problem
>> with
>> the combined script) and make night driving exhausting.
>>
>> Well - I'm off to read a bit before bedtime. Driving to and from the
>> rink in
>> the snow was tiring.
>>
>> Cheryl
>
> Cheryl,
> I have severe astigmatism in one eye and the other is far sighted so I
> know exactly what you mean about wearing glasses, especially bifocals.
> I have worn glasses since I was five but it was not until a few years
> ago an ophthalmologist explained why I got queasy walking around with
> my glasses on!
>
> I've got different glasses for different things - reading, stitching,
> computer, and driving. The reading glasses are 3x, the stitchers are
> 10x - both of those pair are sort of half frames so I can peer over
> them at the TV or out the window. The computer glasses are my only
> bifocals - the upper is for middle distance so I can read the monitor
> and the lower is for close up reading for the papers on the desk. They
> are also a narrow frame so I can look over the top. Then I have two
> pair of driving glasses - one is tinted for sunny days, the other not.
> That was cheaper and more effective than getting the Transition lenses
> that change tint.
>
> I get new frames ever other year and set of lenses per year with our
> insurance, so I rotate through which glasses get replaced. This year I
> had to pay for new frames for my needlework glasses since the old frames
> were literally falling apart and I was not due for new frames. My old
> computer glasses that got scratched are my "shopping" glasses that stay
> in my purse so I can read labels when I go out to stores. I have two
> pair of reading glasses so one can stay in the bedroom and the other
> next to the comfy chair for reading in front of the TV.
>
> My husband makes fun of my herd of glasses but this works better for me
> than trying to use one type of lens for everything. Even when I tried
> contacts (the "new ones" for astigmatism) I still needed sunglasses,
> reading and needlework glasses. Not a big reduction in numbers there!
>
> Anne W.
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> I've actually seen some folks put readers on in front
> of their normal specs (distance, I guess).