Thanks for the information on the opalescent fabric that you are working on. Will take your advice as to staying away from the jobelan when I order for the "angel" pattern. I'm looking at some PTP dyed- hand fabric that has "crystals" in it but I think they cautioned that the crystal fabric can be overpowering on the pattern if used on light colored backgrounds. Cintinuing to look at fabric MINUS jobelan opalescent. As for the cataracts, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for summer of 2015 for them to fix the eyes.