A blind person can and should continue to do whatever kind of sewing he or she did as a sighted person.
Many people sew very little today.
Some even arrange to have the laundry or dry cleaner do mending for them. Others very much enjoy sewing and do a great deal of it. Whether you are blind or sighted need not affect your success in sewing or your preference to avoid it. Three or four tips about sewing will be useful to a newly blinded person. A needle threader consisting of a small piece of metal and wire loop which can be put into the eye of a needle and used to draw the end of the thread through the needle is very useful for threading needles, whether you are sewing by hand or with a sewing machine.