Retired, live a slow life.
Retirement is good, there is time, you can do whatever you want.
No, I discarded more than twenty years of manual sewing work, and let me pick it up again.
My house is clipped
I remember when I was in high school, one summer, my mother told girls to learn needlework.
My mother, who is a teacher, also had a holiday, and seeing that I finished my summer homework early during the holiday, she was ready to teach me needlework.
In memory, a rattan basket was made with a layer of cloth sewn inside
The mother took out a sewing basket, which was the treasure chest of the family, thimbles, buttons, money balls, rags, sock molds, insole paper molds.
My favorite thing is to rummage through small objects in the basket, feel buttons, wrap threads, wear thimbles, and look for floral cloth.
The quilt to be dismantled and washed at home was to be done, and my mother taught me by sewing the quilt.
When I was a child, it was all coarse cloth quilts
Spread the quilt, put the cotton wool, and spread the back.
My mother taught me how to hemming, as well as the four square corners, and first sewed the four sides and corners.
More than half a foot apart, the mother used the needle nose to make a long mark, and sewed along this mark, and the sewing was relatively straight and would not go off.
Sew a few more threads in the middle to secure the cotton wool, inside and back of the quilt.
When I was a child, I didn't sleep honestly and kicked the quilt indiscriminately.
When I was a child, I was all this quilt
That's where I started to learn sewing.
The quilt is thick and a thimble must be used.
The thimble is worn on the middle finger of the right hand, the index finger and thumb are responsible for threading the sewing needle into the garment, and the thimble pushes the back.
Thimble holding
Place your left hand at the bottom of the quilt, put a thimble on the middle finger of your right hand, and pinch the needle with your index finger and thumb while fixing the direction.
The needle nose against the thimble, the needle tip first pierces forward and down, the left hand holds the quilt, the needle pierces through the quilt, before turning forward, the thimble presses against the needle nose, pushes the needle hard, the needle out of the quilt surface, pulls out the needle and takes the thread out.
thimble
Both left and right hands have been pierced.
After piercing my hands a few times, I quickly learned to sew quilts.
At that time, the young female teachers at my mother's school were all learning embroidery.
Embroidered braces
My mother also brought me back a round bamboo brace and various colored flower threads, and the school's art teacher drew the outline of a girl in a straw hat on a white cool cloth, decorated with flower vines on all sides.
One summer vacation, quickly embroidered and also learned to lock the seam.
Hollow round keys
During the summer vacation, I also sewed several cloth shuttles from rag heads, which contained sticks.
There are two kinds of shuttles, one is square and solid, and the other is round and hollow.
The hollow one is made of six square packets, and the corners are sewn together to form a round hollow key.
Square shuttlecock
After starting a family, I sewed all the cotton clothes and pants that my children had when they were young.
Every year, or if it is dirty, take it apart, take out the cotton wool, wash the inside and noodles, and then sew it on.
When children are young, they wear these open pants
Thimble, when I was a child, I used it more.
Later, the living conditions improved, the children were older, and there were fewer handicrafts.
Now that I'm okay to retire, I pass the time, I picked up the manual work again, and the thimble was used in the pie again.
Thimble in my house
The thimble is a rectangular piece of iron bent into a circle, and the outside of the circle is pierced with a few pits, which is the place where the needle is held.
The thimble of more than 30 years has now been used again, and I think it can be used for another 30 years.
Yellow thimble
My thimble, the value I used, must have been more than 30 years, moved four or five times, moved from the north to Jianghuai land, I also brought the thimble.
There are two thimbles, which should be iron bar, silver white and golden yellow.
Silver thimble
Each thimble hides a story, and some are like family heirlooms, passed down from generation to generation.
Do you have a thimble in your home? Will you use it?
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