sorry about the stroke....but there are a lot of magnefying glasses and even one that you sit in front of and hold your work under it....my aunt has one and she uses hers to read her newspaper......would be such a pitty to let something that sounds so beautiful go unfinished.....just take your time and see what happens.....crocheting is something you dont lose...you just have to figure out different ways....i crocheted when i had a cast on my right hand....had to fish yarn through the thumb whole and finish the whole skein before i could stop ...lol( that was many years ago- i was 13)....lol....but you get the point...dont stop.....keep trying.....let me know how it goes....