Chapter 28 Making Clothes for the Children
"...Yes," Gu Nan said in a low voice. He didn't want others to touch his mother's things, but Yu Hui used this to make clothes for them, and he seemed unable to stop her from using it.
Besides, my mother has never used a sewing machine.
Yu Hui found the thread and threaded it onto the sewing machine.
He took a ruler and measured Beibei's size, then marked the fabric according to the size.
"Mom, can you make new clothes for me too?" Gu Xixi asked her stepmother eagerly.
"Of course." Yu Hui nodded with a smile, and took a ruler to measure Gu Xi's size.
Gu Nan sat on the deck chair, watching his stepmother measuring his younger brother and sister, her fingers picking at the seams of the chair, a hint of longing in her slightly drooping eyes.
He also wanted his stepmother to measure his size.
After Yu Hui finished measuring Gu Xixi, when she looked away, she found that Gu Nan was looking at her. After realizing that she was looking at him, she quickly turned her head away.
"Gu Nan."
"What?" Gu Nan turned his little face coolly.
"Come here." Yu Hui waved, "Let me measure you."
"Oh." Gu Nan slid down the chair coldly, walked over reluctantly, and stood in front of his stepmother.
Yu Hui held back her laughter and measured his size.
Sometimes children are like this, both annoying and cute.
Gu Nan's awkward look, where he clearly wanted it but appeared unwilling, was so adorable that it made people want to pinch his cheeks that were slightly puffed up because of his pouting.
After measuring the sizes of the three little ones, Yu Hui sat in front of the sewing machine and started working.
With a step of your foot and a push of your hand, the fabric is slid forward and the edge is tied.
Yu Hui made Beibei’s dress first, a long-sleeved A-line dress with a baby doll collar and seersucker, with a small arc-shaped pocket at the chest.
After the clothes were made, she would embroider beautiful flowers on the neckline and pockets.
The two boys wore stand-up collar shirts made of light ginger linen with a pocket on the right chest.
The pants are knee-length shorts made of dark blue Dacron, with two pockets on each trouser, and match the shirt.
After the clothes were finished, Yu Hui realized that she had not bought buttons and rubber bands.
She asked Gu Nan to look after his younger siblings at home while she went to the grocery store and came back soon. The grocery store in the military area also sold these things.
Yu Hui walked fast and got home in twenty minutes.
After tying the rubber band on the top of the trousers, making the waist elastic, and sewing the buttons, Yu Hui asked Gu Xixi and Gu Nan to try them on.
Gu Xixi was about to take off his clothes to try it on the spot, but was stopped by Gu Nan, who took his clothes and dragged him back to the room to try it on.
Yu Hui also tried a skirt on Beibei. The skirt was a little loose, but it was still wearable. After all, the child still needs to grow. It is impossible to make it perfect, otherwise the child will not be able to wear it when he grows taller.
After trying it on Beibei, Yu Hui took off the clothes, picked up the needle and thread, and embroidered three small flowers of different colors connected together on the collar and chest pocket, and also added two green leaves.
While she was embroidering, Gu Nan and Gu Xi came in holding hands.
"Mother."
Yu Hui looked up, her eyes suddenly lit up, "Where did this handsome boy come from?"
The two good-looking children wore light ginger-colored shirts and dark blue shorts, and looked energetic.
"What is Xiao Shuai Guo?" Gu Xixi asked.
Yu Hui smiled and said, "A handsome boy means someone who is very, very good-looking."
Gu Xixi blushed immediately and said, "Mom is a big shot."
Mom praised Xixi for being very, very pretty, and Xixi also wanted to praise her mom.
Faced with his stepmother's praise, Gu Nan's expression was a little unnatural, and his ears turned slightly red.
He liked this set of clothes very much. It was the first time for him to wear such nice clothes. His clothes were all old clothes that his elder brother could not wear.
Yu Hui: "Handsome guy is used to describe boys, while beautiful girl is used to describe girls."
"Then mother is a great beauty." Gu Xixi is very good at it.
"Come here and let me see if it's suitable?" Yu Hui waved her hand, and the two children came to her.
Yu Hui tugged at their sleeves, trouser legs and waists, and helped them tuck their shirts into their pants, making them look more energetic.
"It's a little big, but it's just right. I can wear it for another year."
"Okay, go take it off."
Gu Xixi hugged herself with her arms, "Can you please not take it off?"
He has been wearing this new clothes all the time.
Gu Nan didn't want to take it off either, he wasn't warm enough yet.
Yu Hui smiled and said, "Mom hasn't finished the dress yet. She still needs to embroider flowers on your chest, like this..."
Yu Hui showed Gu Nan and Gu Xi the two flowers embroidered on the collar of her skirt.
“So beautiful.”
Yu Hui glanced at Gu Xixi, whose eyes were shining, and felt that he was the group leader of the praise group and could provide people with a lot of emotional value.
"Can I not have the small flowers?" Gu Xi asked. Although the flowers looked nice, Xixi was a boy. How could there be flowers on a boy's clothes?
"Sure, what do you want?" Yu Hui looked at Gu Xi and asked.
Gu Xi thought about it seriously and said, "I want a kitten."
Because cats look very majestic when catching mice.
"good."
"What about you?" Yu Hui looked at Gu Nan and asked.
Can he embroider whatever he wants?
Gu Nan swallowed hard, thought about it carefully and said, "I want a big tiger."
My father said that the tiger is the king of beasts and the most powerful.
"Okay." Yu Hui said.
The two were still reluctant to leave, and went to change their clothes reluctantly.
These embroideries are very simple and use the simplest needlework. Yu Hui quickly finished embroidering the three pieces of clothing.
Gu Nan and Gu Xi also had kittens and tigers embroidered on their pants respectively, to distinguish their clothes from each other, after all, they were the same style.
However, Gu Xixi and Gu Nan looked at the kitten and tiger cub on the clothes with a strange expression.
This was completely different from the majestic kitten and tiger they imagined. What was embroidered on Gu Xi's clothes was a black kitten lying and sleeping in the pocket.
Embroidered on Gu Nan's clothes was a yellow tiger head with bright eyes, which looked like it was sticking out of his pocket.
Both kittens and tiger cubs are cute, not majestic.
Never mind, it’s cute, it’s pretty too.
"Mom, can we wear it now?" Gu Xixi asked.
He wanted to wear them back to show his brother, and also to show his new clothes to Brother Lixin, Aunt Qian and Uncle Yu.
Yu Hui said: "You have to soak it in water and wash it before wearing it."
This linen material will become softer after washing.
Gu Xixi's face fell, "No, I wear it today and then wash it. I want everyone to see my new clothes."
Yu Hui stared at Gu Xixi for a while, but she couldn't bear to refuse him, so she nodded and said, "Okay."
The sun is quite strong today, so it won’t be cold even if you wear short-sleeved shirts and shorts, but it will definitely be cold at night.
"That's great." Gu Xixi jumped up with joy.
Yu Hui packed up her things and when she came out, Gu Xixi was no longer at home.
"Where is your brother?" Yu Hui asked Gu Nan.
Gu Nan raised his chin towards the door and said, "He's standing outside the courtyard gate."
If he didn't want to look after his sister, he would have stood outside the courtyard gate.
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