Zhen Yaozai: There is no cloth that is harder than a needle, only a heart that is tougher than cloth

● Peach and plum spring wind a glass of wine, jianghu night rain ten years of lights ●

Editor Xiaoxiang Smoke and Rain Guest Note: Bi Shumin said that when parents are here, life still has a place to come; when parents go, life is only a way back. In the thousands of grateful days, we often think of our parents, think of their needlework years, think of their sewing time, and think of their meaning - family style. As zhen yaozai, the author of this article, said: There is no cloth that is harder than a needle, only a heart that is tougher than cloth. This heart is the motherly heart that loves us. Home and everything are inextricably linked in the mother's pinhole.

The mother's hand is threaded, like a gushing blood vein, moisturizing the body and mind.

Hometown customs, grandchildren, granddaughters full moon, grandmother to send "head and tail gifts", also known as "send full moon", that is, to send hats, belly pockets, bracelets, socks, shoes and other clothing accessories to babies and children. Four sisters, who had a dozen nephews and nieces, gave the "head and tail gift" that was basically made by my mother herself. Baby hats, in particular, require mental effort.

There are generally three kinds of baby hats made by mothers, namely melon skin hats, black cloth bottom red embellishments, given to grandchildren; rabbit hats, floral rag splicing or woolen weaving, the top of the hat has rabbit ears, sent to the granddaughter; mesh hats, tulle cloth to make the hat body, the top of the hat is woven into a net, which is conducive to ventilation, used in summer, and legends will also ward off evil spirits.

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When I was a child, I often watched my mother do needlework at night. The mother first cleaned her hands, then lit the kerosene lamp, and then brought out a bamboo basket containing needles, threads, scissors, cloth, rulers and other materials, placed them on the coffee table, and sat on the bench and began to sew tightly.

The lights flickered and the outer ring of the mother image on the wall lit up. Mother often said that when people want to wear makeup, they must have squares and circles, and they must have a look. Mother's words came to heart. Our brothers and sisters are neatly dressed, and they are all stitched and threaded by our mothers, sewing wholeheartedly, decorating the younger generations, and it is even more painstaking.

The melon skin hat is mainly composed of a surface cloth, a lining cloth (hat cover) and a brim. The mother first cut out a model of lotus petals with paper, and then cut the table cloth according to the model, about five or seven pieces. With the tip of the petals as the top of the top arrangement, two adjacent cloth surfaces are close to each other, the hand is pinched with the bristle seam, at the edge of about 2 mm, first fixed with a thin needle piece by piece, and then sewn sequentially with a locking needle, evenly walking the needle, not tight and not loose pulling the thread, dense and intermittent, the petal form of the piece is unchanged, the stitching is closed, into a cone.

The matter is not over, and having face is not the real face. Turn it into a bucket, turn it inside, and turn it inside into a face, so that the inside becomes the real inside, the face is the real face, and the first hat body.

Great love has no words and is often integrated into embroidery kung fu. After the mother trims the brim of the hat, cut a red cloth strip about 30 mm wide for the brim, the cloth strip is folded on both sides of about 2 or 3 mm, the cloth strip is facing outward, the cloth surface is attached to the cap body, the folding side is aimed at the brim about 10 mm at the needle, the needle is first fixed and closed, and then sewn with a flat needle, and the other needle seamlessly connects the head and tail of the hat edge cloth strip. The flat needle needs to be even and straight, otherwise the cloth is wrinkled. Fold the outer brim of the cloth in half around the brim of the hat to make the cloth noodles come true.

At this time, the ceramic tooth cylinder is filled with hot water, and the bottom of the cylinder is reciprocating to iron the edge of the compaction cap. Subsequently, the cut hat cover cloth into the hat, the cap sleeve edge is sandwiched between the cap hem and the cap body, the edge of the brim cloth strip has been folded 2, 3 mm towards the cap body, at this time, with a diagonal crochet needle to the cap rim, the cap sleeve sewn on the inner side of the cover of the surface cloth, so far, the main project of the hat has been completed.

Big things are done in detail, and prudence will always be the same. The mother looked at the hat, like a beam on the roof, with prayers and blessings, and sewed the "spirit of the hat" with dark needles. One is the hat emblem, according to the current saying is the LOGO, in the red cloth strip on the side of the hat end to end of the symmetry above, generally with red head thread sewn on a circular "Fu" or "Shou" word; one is the top of the hat, some with red head rope to weave a disc buckle, some with red head thread to weave a small bag, which contains exquisite shell snails. Mothers regard their children and grandchildren as laurels and often make up laurels for their children and grandchildren!

After watching for a long time, I love to move. My mother taught me to wear needles. The thread is wet with lips licking, the thread is soft and weak, and the thumb index finger is moderately twisted and pulled, which can make the thread "hard" straight, like a needle. Hold the needle vertically in your left hand, and gently pinch the thread with the index finger of your right thumb, revealing a long line of about one knuckle, align it with the pinhole, and then slowly pull it out. Just learn, more mistakes. Practice, when the needle is handed to the thread helper, enjoy it. Mother said that when threading needles, we must concentrate our minds, focus on the needle holes in the heart and eyes, and the eyes are fast and fast, and rush to close in one breath. Looking left and right, indecisive, shrinking hands and feet, unable to wear needles, unable to lead the line, unable to pass.

The good knot has no rope. The hat sewn by the mother, the appearance can not see the thread marks, handsome, handsome. I want to wear it, and the baby hat is only the size of an adult's fist, and I can't wear it, button the top of my head, and smirk. Mother Happy blossomed, said, when you grow up and have children, then sew for you.

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There is no cloth that is harder than a needle, only a heart that is tougher than cloth. The mother immersed herself in the happiness of sewing costumes for her children and grandchildren. When my child was born, my mother was almost ancient, and she worked hard to sew clothes for her children.

Not only our family, but also many distant relatives and close neighbors, their mothers have sewn and worked for them. Mother often said that in the middle of the township, the thousand-year-old door pier. Mothers with a needle and a thread, friendship and neighborliness, children's clothes and hats, the old man's shoes, wedding and funeral dresses, the gap between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the entanglement of concubines, the estrangement of the family, with the toughness of character, with the softness and kindness of benevolence, spare no effort to sew and mend, thread needles. Therefore, he won the respect of the villagers and the elders and the younger generations, and was revered as the "second aunt", and thus sewed a harmonious growth path for the children and grandchildren.

Chengyi writes spring and autumn, and benevolence continues to be long. The needle in the mother's hand is hard and the thread is long. Throughout her life, the mother tried her best to push needles for her children and grandchildren to go to sea, weaving nets, establishing programs, and beating winds and waves; leading into the world, adding clothes, embroidering flowers, and making wedding clothes for people. The mother's success comes from the heart, and the work lies in the heart. Weave the heart with the heart, weave a world.

Whoever says anything will be rewarded with three Chunhui. The Dream Mother wishes the world not to return late.

Original title "Mother's Hand Line"

Idle questions, comment on the wind and moon. Carry wine at the time, mix ice and snow. If the heart is bright, the road has sunshine. Be a person who loves words together, be a bright person, hold the pen in your hand tightly, and smile at the vicissitudes. The rush of the journey is carved into life, and the ordinary and tasteful life is sketched and graffiti.

The owner of this public name: Xiaoxiang Yanyuke, real name Peng Jianwen, born in Chaling, Hunan, graduated from Xiamen University, deputy director of the Cultural Committee of the Xiamen Democratic League, executive vice chairman of the Haicang District Writers Association, participated in the main writing of "Haicang Story", "Haicang Journey" and other series of books, published dozens of poetry and prose works in core newspapers and periodicals.