I am getting older.
Yes, yes, that 46th birthday thing that happened a couple of weeks ago, may have been a tip-off, but I was concentrating on the presents, not encroaching age! Anyway - it has manifested itself in my new glasses - I now have graduated lenses. *wahhhhhhhhhhhh!* I'm *le gasp* OLDDDDDDDDDD!
*hee*. I'm kidding of course. I know I'm, er, let's call it, "well-lived", but I feel very young, still.
However, these graduated lense things are a pip! Getting used to them will take time, I'm sad to say (they make me a bit dizzy and give me vertigo on stairs at the moment), so I'm wearing them for a few hours every day, and when I'm not - I wear regular contact lenses, and have three different sets of reading glasses.
One for the 'puter at home (which is farther away than the one at the office), so I also have reading glasse for the 'puter at the office, and then, you guessed it, reading glasses for sewing.
(Yes, I really am going to use that bright fuschia thread on those red fabrics. What? *w*)
Neither option is perfect (yet) and the glasses/contact combo have the effect of making everything much bigger (good) and weirdly, concave (bad). Needless to say, quilting has been challenging!
So, I decided to put aside the "important" stuff and make another cat quilt. Remember the scraps and saffron I made a month or so ago? I said at the time, I had enough blocks to make another one, so I did, and sashed it in red jersey this time instead of the saffron yellow cotton.
And, taking into account the whole things are REALLY BIG and also concave, I decided to do some simple quilting. And guess what? I figured out the stopping and starting thing! BSP and I were trying to do a video to post here, but the fuschia thread against the red and pink and woohoo! fabrics just wasn't working. I'll try and get one up later in the week with contrasting thread and white or cream fabric.
Hey, but if you click on the above photo to view it "in big" guess what, guess what? That's right - no sign of stopping or starting!!! Hurray! So I'll post a video of that later in the week.
In the meantime, I'll continue to get used to my new "eyes" and by Friday, I should have something else to post. Probably something that looks really SUPER BIG, and round.... ;)
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Good lucky getting use to the glasses. I have the progressive so I would not have to have reading glasses but I still take my glasses off to read. Yep, I am having one of those B days coming up soon...don't like it at all but I really feel young...and sometimes behave half my age....but the ole body is not cooperating....I am a few years older than you...but just wait...love the colors..
ReplyDeleteI seriously wouldn't have guessed your real age from your picture! Goodness, I'm actually in shock!! Age is a funny thing. I still feel like me even though the mirror tells me everything is changing:-)I've always had a habit of sewing with my head really close to the machine and I keep catching my hair! (Always had dodgy eyesight:-)) Oh, that concave thing is a real pain when you try to play the piano!! The keyboard is all bendy at first and its like playing on a curve - wow!
ReplyDeleteYou'll get used to them faster than you think. I remember when I first got mine -- stairs made me nervous because of the concave thing. Moving escalators seemed like quite the adventure.
ReplyDeleteI love the quilting you did on the little cat quilt!
I finally broke down and got progressives when I was about 44. I can't call them bifocals (that's my mom's word). But do be VERY careful with stairs. Until I got used to mine, I fell down the step a few times. Then added worry about breaking a hip...it never ends. I'm looking forward (counting down) to being 50 in a few months. I love your blog, have a great day:)
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