Mother's Day | mother's sewing basket

Author Huang Ailing

The title of mother should be the greatest title in the world, and the mother who has experienced a difficult October pregnancy to bring a new life into this world is doomed to the greatness of the mother and the difficulty of the mother.

The blood of every new life flows with the blood of the mother. Mother with warm love and hardship to conceive a small life, with the first cry of the fall, a new life was born, the mother with a weak hand carefully to touch the delicate little hand, hot and still with the mother's body temperature of the small hand silky silky, small hand instinctively moved, this is the mother and child to the heart of the tacit understanding, at that moment, the mother showed a happy smile, from a beautiful girl to a wife, and now a mother, the role of the transformation, from then on more responsibility, more than a concern.

My mother, like most mothers, is diligent, hard-working, thrifty, we have many brothers and sisters, and the family's economic conditions are not rich, but my mother keeps the home in an orderly, clean and tidy manner.

I was born in the 60s, the youngest in the family, in order to take care of our brothers and sisters, my mother quit her job, at home to take care of the housework, only my father worked alone, to support the family. In that era of material hardship, food, clothing, and use had to be supplied by ticket, but we never lacked food and clothing, and if it were not for our mother's frugality, our lives really did not know what it would be like. The mother changed the big clothes to smaller ones, and gave the small ones to wear them, and although the clothes were a little old, they were always washed clean. Sometimes I woke up in the middle of the night and found that my mother was still doing needlework in the dim light, sewing and mending for us. My mother was usually very frugal, but she had to make a new dress for each of us for the New Year, and I rarely saw my mother wearing new clothes. I asked my mother

Mom, we have new clothes to wear for the New Year, why don't you have them.

Mothers always say that children wear new clothes for the New Year, and adults do not have to wear them.

Mother had a wicker needle and thread basket with needles of various sizes, thick and thin threads, scissors, awls for the soles of shoes, shoe samples, clothing patterns, thimbles, reading glasses, rulers, powder pieces (for cutting and scribing of cloth), buttons, rags of various colors, etc. In the sewing basket, there is a treasure bag, everything.

I would often go to my mother's sewing basket and, when I saw a beautiful rag, I would wrap my mother around and ask her to sew sandbags for me.

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Sandbags are my favorite toys, a few children play hopscotch together, throw sandbags, kick sandbag games, play very happy, very intoxicated.

Whenever my mother sews a new sandbag for me with a stitch and a thread, I will wait eagerly next to it, urging my mother to sew quickly, sew it well, leave a small opening, and then load the sand, and then sew the remaining mouth, when the mother sews it and drags it down, I will not wait to pick up the sandbag, run out quickly, show it to the children, and my mother looks at my back and shouts at me lovingly

Run slowly and get home early.

I replied without looking back: I know, Mom.

My mother's needlework is good, and whenever I show the children the new sandbags that my mother sews, they are particularly envious of me, saying that the sandbags your mother sews are really beautiful.

Hearing the praise of the children, my heart was beautiful, and my little vanity was also satisfied.

A small sandbag, several children sit around together, one of the children with a sandbag in his hand behind the children, if the sandbag is left behind whom, the child will stand up, take the sandbag and continue to walk behind the children. The game is called Find Friends, as the nursery rhyme "Find a Friend" sings:

Look for a friend,

Find a good friend,

Salute, shake hands,

I'm a good friend of yours.

Sandbags can also be used as "hopscotch", that is, draw some squares on the ground, throw the sandbags into a grid, and then jump over the grid on one leg, bend down to pick up the sandbags, and then throw the sandbags forward, the other leg can not land, if it lands, it will lose, and another child will jump. Kicking sandbags is also a fun game, you kick me, I kick him. You can also kick alone, much like kicking a shuttlecock.

In my memory, my mother can do everything, make cloth shoes, take the sole, the dense needle and thread size is uniform, just like the machine, the shoes made by the mother are just right on the feet, it is very comfortable to walk, the shoes do not fit, only the feet know.

The clothes sewn by the mother are no different from the clothes bought, and the mother will also make a buckle, and the buckle can be exquisite.

My mother's craftsmanship was handed down from my grandmother, and I saw at my grandmother's house that my grandmother also had a sewing basket, and the contents were the same as the things in my mother's sewing basket.

Grandma is a small foot, the clothes worn are diagonally placketed, the button is used to buckle, the grandmother's shoes and clothes are all made by herself, the craftsmanship is quite good, the grandmother passed on the exquisite craftsmanship to the mother, and the mother also did a beautiful and good handicraft. My mother is from Shandong, so this is the best Shandong handmade bar.

I learned a little bit about my mother's craft, which is only a dime a dozen compared to my mother's craft, and it is not worth mentioning. Nowadays, few people sew their own clothes and wear them, they buy and wear them. When my daughter was a child, I also knitted sweaters and sweaters for her, but I haven't knitted them for many years, and I have almost forgotten my craft. Now when the little doll is born, there is nothing that cannot be bought from head to toe, but it always feels that something is missing, and what is missing is probably that kind of warmth.

Unfortunately, my mother's sewing basket could not be preserved, which should be an old object in our family. Mother's sewing basket is full of love, and mother sews clothes for us with her diligent hands to shield us from the wind and cold.

My mother's sewing basket has been deeply remembered in my memory, and I dare not forget it. Whenever I think of my mother's needle and thread basket, a warm current will flood my heart.

Mom, Mother's Day is coming, and my daughter misses you so much.

About the author: Huang Ailing, likes to read and write. The article "70th Birthday, I Grew Up with the Motherland" published by One Point [Taste Reading Life] was read by 9.248 million. He has published more than 100 works, and the article "Quancheng Jinan, Not Jiangnan is better than Jiangnan" was included in the book "QingquanLu", an anthology of excellent works of Qilu Evening News, participated in a number of essays, and won awards. Many of his works have been published on online platforms, newspapers and periodicals. He is a member of Jinan Writers Association.

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