Yongchang: Skillfully "hook" to weave a better future

Cute bears, creative little bells, beautiful children's shoes, candy in outer clothes, caterpillars in hats, treasure gourds with belts, mini headphone bags... Walking into the Xiuhua Handicraft Workshop in The Cultural Street of Yongchang County, various hand-crocheted woolen pendants, ornaments, shoes and hats are of different forms and lifelike.

While busy with the work at hand, the shopkeeper Li Xiuhua told reporters: "The ability to crochet so many exquisite and endearing works depends entirely on the joint efforts of her sisters who love crochet."

The sisters li xiuhua said did not know each other at the beginning, and no one knew what each person's strengths were. To be able to string up this thread for them to sit together and crochet various objects with skillful hands, it has to start with Li Xiuhua herself. Just after the Spring Festival last year, Li Xiuhua, who has been doing business for nearly 30 years, suddenly wanted to crochet a small animal toy for her little grandson, she learned to crochet a small rabbit doll with her previous old foundation, and she did not expect that her grandson liked it and loved it. Using her spare time, she has successively crocheted some small objects, after getting to the store, she found that many customers are very interested, especially ladies, as soon as they enter the store without looking at the goods, first consult her crochet small objects, some customers buy on the spot, which she did not expect. With a breakthrough point, Li Xiuhua had the idea of doing crochet business.

"With the continuous development of the Internet economy, it is becoming more and more difficult to do physical store business, and transformation and development is the only way." Li Xiuhua said.

In fact, Li Xiuhua is very forward-looking, in recent years, she is observing and exploring while opening a store, considering the future development of the way out. She has successively studied through the Internet and the surrounding cities to understand the current demand direction and market development prospects of handmade crochet fabrics, and found that this product is in high demand, especially favored by women and children. Female compatriots who love beauty like to hang a small ornament on their bags, or use beautiful and cute small objects on car keys, rooms, desks, etc.

Through her regular customers and friends and family, Li Xiuhua told them that she wanted to organize crochet enthusiasts to start a business together, and posted her crocheted works on the Internet to find demand orders.

Driven by Li Xiuhua, the lady who loves crochet took the initiative to join the ranks of crochet entrepreneurship. The reporter saw that a circle of women sat around a row of tables in the store, holding their breath, sitting on the needle: the thread ball circled a few times on the index finger of the left hand, the crochet needle in the right hand, the crochet needle wandered between the hands, and after a while, a ball of velvet thread became a colorful flower, a small candy, a leaf... Everyone was busy in their hands, and their mouths were not idle, chatting about homely things, talking about their hearts, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Wang Xinghua is a crochet enthusiast in his 50s, years ago, got a batch of orders, she said satisfactorily: "I have always liked crochet, with the Internet platform, sisters can do it together, they can do it at home, as long as they are diligent, they can earn more than a thousand yuan a month." ”

At present, the "Xiuhua" team has more than a dozen people. The various objects they crochet are very popular with customers, and there are more and more orders online. The sisters are stepping up their schedule according to the order volume every day.

"It's almost the New Year, the order volume is a bit large, the manpower is small, and now the orders of the previous year are mainly completed, and the orders of the next year are also lined up for five or six thousand." Li Xiuhua is staying up late every day these days, although she is tired, she can see the fullness and happiness of her life. In order to solve the problem of small manpower and no scale, Li Xiuhua has contacted a training institution and plans to accept its training students to make crochet artwork bigger and stronger. Lead more sisters to start a business to increase income and create happiness through labor. "This is Li Xiuhua's dream, and it is also everyone's long-cherished wish."

Source: Daily Gansu Network