To make a difficult thing easier.. handmade occlusion patch

Hi it's Bev today and I thought I'd have a break from denim upcycling this month, something practical.

My daughter Lilli has very different eyesight in  her eyes. One is perfect and the other was so long sighted that she hardly used it; I thought the lop sided look was a little attitude, how wrong can you be!

She had to go through approximately 2 years of patching - 8 hours a day. The NHS give out sticky patches with wonderful patterns on but they can iteratate the skin round the eye so I started looking for an alternative. This is a while ago and they do now have some cloth patches but you have to ask.

I found this wonderful tutorial on how to make a felt one to fit over her glasses at LucyKate crafts. It was easy to make and slid right on to her glasses.  It changed how Lilli coped with the patching, a BIG thank you.

Lilli and I went shopping and she choose the felt. We had a go and decided to add some extra beads as a bit of bling.

I know this won't be for everyone but I think occasionally it will find the right person and it really helps. My gratitude to LucyKate crafts is immense through a difficult time. All finished patching now as they say it doesn't help after 7/8 years. It helped a lot and now the battle is to find glasses she likes to wear.

Happy last week of the holidays.

Bev

Comments

[Eleanor]

A fabulous idea, and a sweet feminine design.
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[Leanne]

Sucha lovely idea, my DS needs something like this :D x