Yakun night reading 丨 mother's quilt (with sound)

The quilt that my mother made for me was finally reluctant to discard, and I put it in the cupboard and had not covered it for many years.

Recently, I feel particularly cold, and I always feel that the goose down quilt is good, the camel quilt is good, and the cover on the body is light and fluttering, and it is not warm.

So I pulled out the quilt my mother had made for me in the cupboard. After tasting the warm sun in winter, the core of the quilt that I originally felt was softened, and the quilt that stuck to the sun smelled, which immediately made me smell the smell of my mother's house and my mother's smell.

The rules of the elderly in the countryside, the daughter gets married, a few covers are very exquisite, when I got married, my mother gave me a few covers and I can't remember clearly. After 30 years of marriage, there are still several large quilts in the cabinet of the family, six pounds, eight pounds, ten pounds.

I remember when I said that the ten-pound quilt was too heavy, and my mother said that when it was very cold, the quilt with the key cover would not be cold.

When I got married in the 80s of the last century, there were more beautiful and cheap quilts in the shops, and the quilts played by the country masters were not only more expensive, but also somewhat "earthy". But in my mother's eyes, only the cover made according to the tradition of the elders is the real dowry cover, and it cannot be sloppy at all. For the quilt I married, she worked hard.

My family's location does not produce cotton, so she first has to entrust someone to find a cotton-producing place and buy back the fine, newly produced cotton from the cotton farmers. After the cotton was bought, she looked everywhere for a flower master.

Looking for a flower master, the most troublesome. In my childhood memories, the flower playing master was very remarkable, and the strings in the master's hands were tapped under the wooden stick, making a rhythmic sound of "tom tom", like playing music, which was very interesting. But doing this work is not as light as the eyes of children, it is a dirty and tiring job. When playing cotton, the flying cotton wool often makes people white from head to toe, and the hand that beats the bow string is not plucking the strings, but consuming people's physical strength. Therefore, fewer and fewer people in the countryside are learning this craft. By the time I got married, the flower master was not so easy to find.

Mom went through many twists and turns, and finally found a master who she thought was a good craftsman, but the master was too busy to win, so she waited, made an appointment, and made a lot of twists and turns, which was what she wanted.

The cotton wool played by the flower master is handed over to the mother,And the mother also sews a cotton cloth cover on the outside of the cotton wool so that the cotton wool is not exposed, which is the real quilt core. This kind of quilt core made by my mother, from side to side, from corner to corner, from all sides to the center, has to be sewn back and forth a few times, I have seen a lot of quilts, only the quilt that my mother made for me made such a core. Mom said that such a quilt core, covered comfortably, will not be deformed for decades. In the eyes of the mother, the quilt given to the daughter is a lifelong thing, of course, it must be very exquisite.

The last process of making a quilt is "nailing the quilt", which is also something that others cannot interfere with, and she "can't see" what others nail. The level of mother nailing quilts is very high, both fast and ornamental, flying needles, suppressing setbacks, one fold after another, a quilt is nailed, watching her nail the quilt is a pleasure. The quilt nailed by the mother is flat and tangible, folded out of the quilt angle, diagonally unbiased, centered, straight, quite exemplary. The first time my husband came to my house, it was the eve of the Spring Festival, in the evening my mother prepared the quilt for the Spring Festival, looking at the posture of the mother nailing the quilt, Mr. was surprised, "The original nail quilt can also be so exquisite!" ”

When I got married, I later successively received quilts that my mother added for me, which were covered by adults and children; used in winter, used in spring and autumn... Although I always resigned, saying that there were too many quilts at home, she always said that where to buy there was homemade warmth.

After covering the quilt that my mother left me, the night was no longer cold, and even a little hot. Although mom has been away from us for 10 years, mom's quilt is still so warm.

The mother's quilt is the warmth of the child's life.