• Catfish
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    10 days ago

    Really need to get my eyes checked. Sat down to do a quick pile of mending and spent 90% of the time failing to thread a needle.

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      10 days ago

      Do the the trusty toothbrush tango - that’s what I do nowadays. Damn getting ooooold - its the little things that really get to me.

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        10 days ago

        That’s a new one to me. Looks a bit awkward for a machine, but am totally going to try it.

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      10 days ago

      I was having that problem, and eventually realised I need to take my glasses *off to be able to see close up now. I’m now both short sighted and long sighted, making finding a point at which I can actually see clearaly quite tricky.

      I have been using needle threaders for hand sewing which I never used to need, and replaced my sewing machine with a model that has a needle threader built in.

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        10 days ago

        I needed glasses as a kid, so the likely hood now isn’t a great surprise. Some of those little wire gizmos are probably in the house somewhere or other

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        I was having that problem, and eventually realised I need to take my glasses *off to be able to see close up now. I’m now both short sighted and long sighted, making finding a point at which I can actually see clearaly quite tricky.

        Design flaw that having both doesn’t cause them to cancel out, really.