Seeing that Chi Yin was reluctant to take it, the woman forced it into Chi Yin's hands.
The women who formed a clique crossed their arms and sneered, "Oh, you are playing dumb at the critical moment. I think you are here to fill the numbers in our training class!"
Chi Yin looked at the chiffon shirt in her hand, thinking that her master had been a tailor for decades, and she couldn't let him be branded as someone who gave his students a backdoor.
But how should she sew?
At this time, Zhao Jianguo came in from outside with colorful threads and some rags. Seeing that everyone was gathered together and chattering, but no one raised their hands, he asked, "I have the material. Is there anyone who wants to give it a try?"
The woman quickly pointed at Chi Yin and said, "Master Zhao! Chi Yin said she wanted to show everyone her skills."
The other women shouted, "Yes, yes, yes! She also said that we don't want linen or cotton, but chiffon."
Zhao Jianguo glanced over and saw Chi Yin holding a piece of the most troublesome material in the sewing industry - chiffon.
This kind of material requires a lot of carefulness and skills from the craftsman even when cutting it, let alone sewing it. It is most likely to have dimensional errors, and is also most likely to break, have burrs, and deform after cutting.
Tailoring is even more difficult, as you have to spray water to harden it, curl the edges and press the feet, and clip the paper to cut.
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The three processes are indispensable.
Zhao Jianguo knew that Chi Yin had a talent for sewing, but it was absolutely impossible for her to try her hand at sewing with chiffon material right away.
He frowned and said, "You beginners should be down-to-earth and take it step by step. First master the techniques of numbness and cotton cloth, and then challenge more difficult fabrics."
The woman explained, "Master Zhao, this is what happened. My clothes just happened to have a hole, and Chi Yin wanted to help me mend it, so you can let her try."
Zhao Jianguo looked at Chi Yin, "Do you really want to try your hand at chiffon?"
Chi Yin definitely didn't want to do that, but she had already been slapped in the face, so how could she just accept that?
She looked at the colorful threads in Zhao Jianguo's hand and asked, "Master, you just said that you can use auxiliary techniques to repair the fabric, for example, using embroidery covering to cover it. Can this auxiliary technique be a combination of manual and machine techniques?"
Zhao Jianguo nodded, "That's for sure. As long as the fabric is repaired, any auxiliary technology can be used."
Chi Yin listened carefully. After a brief thought, she smiled and said, "I should be fine."
Zhao Jianguo was shocked. An ordinary chiffon shirt in the supply and marketing cooperative cost five yuan. Chi Yin was a beginner and there would definitely be problems during the sewing process. She would have to pay for the loss later.
However, based on his understanding of Chi Yin during this period, if she couldn't do it, she would definitely refuse. Zhao Jianguo pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, you do it, and I'll assist you orally."
He turned to everyone and said in an encouraging tone, "This is an opportunity to learn, everyone come over and take a look."
Everyone's curiosity had been aroused, and most of them crowded around the operating table to see how Chi Yin implemented it. Even the lazy Yang Tianlei squeezed to the front row to join in the fun.
Only the dozen or so people who believed that Chi Yin had entered through the back door did not move. They leaned against the wall, waiting to see Chi Yin make a fool of himself.
Chi Yin took the ball of colorful threads from Zhao Jianguo. Zhao Jianguo was about to say that he could use threads of the same color when Chi Yin picked out the brightest red thread.
The chiffon shirt is white in color, but she chose red thread. Zhao Jianguo couldn't guess what Chi Yin was thinking for a moment. He just felt that this child was really fearless.
Chi Yin carefully compared the size and thickness of each needle in the sewing box and selected the thinnest one.
Zhao Jianguo once said in his lecture that covering method is not to hide flaws, but to turn flaws into unique beauty.
She began to thread the needle carefully and seriously.
Wu Fang looked at Zhao Jianguo anxiously, "Master Zhao, can Chi Yin really do it?"
She clearly remembered Wu Ren telling her that Chi Yin was a beginner and Zhao Jianguo would accept her as his last disciple because he was more impressed by her honesty and kindness.
"Let her try." Zhao Jianguo frowned, obviously having no hope for Chi Yin's method. According to his technique, he had to spray water to harden it first, but since Chi Yin skipped this step, let her do it.
The onlookers kept silent and watched Chi Yin's operation quietly.
But the men were more attracted by the charm of Chi Yin's devotion to work. Her red lips were pursed into a straight line, her brows were slightly furrowed, and the tip of her nose was sweating because of her excessive caution, but every time she completed a needle technique, her pupils were filled with the light of a shooting star.
She first applied water to the hooked area to stabilize it, and then used the usual sewing techniques to hook and fit the edges of the hole.
The chiffon fabric was so thin that it was translucent, and she was very careful every time she threaded the needle.
It's just a matching process. Everyone knows this kind of mending method. It's the same as mending clothes at home. There's nothing special about it.
A few women were too lazy to watch and pushed their way out of the crowd.
The dozen or so women who disdained to be onlookers became even more proud. So what if Zhao Jianguo was there to give them guidance?
It's ridiculous that a person who got his job through backdoor channels wants to restore his dignity by mending a chiffon shirt.
Chi Yin was not affected by those people.
She already had the method and steps in her mind. Chiffon was prone to continue to shed, so the edges needed to be stabilized. She had now completed this process, and the next step was to cover it.
She used needle and thread to transform the excess chiffon hooks into stamens, outlining the basic outline of the rose.
Zhao Jianguo guessed what Chi Yin was thinking and even breathed lighter.
The chiffon is off-white, and Chi Yin sewed a bright red rose on it, which made it even more perfectly matched with the chiffon shirt.
only......
This rose perfectly covers the hole, but its color is dull, lacks three-dimensionality, and its overall beauty is insufficient.
Just as Zhao Jianguo sighed in his heart, he found that Chi Yin had cut the thread.
He frowned. It wouldn't do to embroider like this. The rose looked like it was patched up. It was too messy. If he were to do this job, he would have to do something with the rose to make it catch people's attention.
The students who were watching were also talking about it.
In this era of material scarcity, three years of new clothes, three years of old clothes, and three years of mending clothes is a true portrayal of people's lives. Every woman knows the skill of needlework.
Although Chi Yin had perfectly matched the hooks of the chiffon shirt, it still looked like a patch.
Chi Yin has her own ideas. Even if she heard someone say "It's too ugly, it's just a fig leaf", she was not affected at all and continued to proceed to the next step.
She pulled out a pink thread from the colorful ball of silk threads and stuck it on the stand of the sewing machine.
After quickly winding the thread, she spread the processed rose petals flat on the table.
Turn the camshaft.
Press the pedal lightly.
As Chi Yin pierced up and down layer by layer, the rose that originally looked like a patch seemed to be reborn.
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