Qiao Baozhu got her work done smoothly and returned to the mutual aid society with ease.
When she opened the door, she saw Wu Meili, Gao Liman and Ji Hehua studying the samples she brought.
"Baozhu, you are finally back. Come here and tell us how this purse is made."
Qiao Baozhu just threw the sample to the three people and didn't tell them what to do specifically.
Gao Liman and a few others overthought it and thought that this handicraft was just to make a red purse.
"This is called a lucky bag. It's very popular in the provincial capital this year. This craft is very simple. Here, take a yellow string and thread it through the two holes in the middle of the front of the lucky bag and tie it into a bow. Thread a red string through the top and pull it hard to tighten it."
In fact, it is just a delicate job of threading a needle. This lucky bag is a handicraft that even children can make.
The samples that Sun Jigang brought at the beginning were very complicated. The lucky bags had patterns of blessing, longevity, peace and prosperity printed on them.
I also brought a few pieces of cloth. When making lucky bags in the store, I found that it was very time-consuming. Not only did I have to align the words on the pattern, but I also had to make holes in the pattern so that the words could not be damaged. Otherwise, customers would feel that their luck was destroyed, which would greatly affect sales.
Later, Qiao Baozhu used the red satin fabric in the store to design a lucky bag.
The appearance of the lucky bag has been slightly changed. The belly of the lucky bag is wider and the "neck" in the middle is slightly narrower. After tightening, the whole lucky bag looks more like the "Ruyi Qiankun Bag" in the comic book.
After it was finished, Qu Yang and others thought that the lucky bag designed by Qiao Baozhu looked better. The belly was round and it could hold a lot of things visually.
"This lucky bag is really good, mainly because the rope at the mouth of the bag is very long. I can sew a strip of cloth on the waist of my son's cotton pants so that it can be hung on it."
Wu Meili liked the long rope on the mouth of the lucky bag at first sight. As long as she tied it around the waist, she would not have to worry about her children losing things.
"During the Chinese New Year, it's really nice to hang this up. You can put peanuts, melon seeds, candies, and glutinous rice cakes in it. You don't have to put it in your pocket, or it will spill when you jump."
From a mother's perspective, the lucky bag designed by Qiao Baozhu is indeed a great selling point.
"What is this? This black wire looks like something you wear on your head, right? What's it called, a head, a head card?"
Wu Meili was not interested in these fancy things. She was big and strong and didn't care about beauty, and she didn't care about girls' things.
"This looks like a headband? Sticking this red flower on the wire, is that what it means?"
Gao Liman is younger and knows more about the city's affairs than Wu Meili.
Qiao Baozhu nodded: "Well, this glue is quite special. Ordinary paste can't stick well. Because all the materials are provided by the manufacturer itself, the labor cost is relatively cheaper."
"The glue is quantitative. One tube of glue can make 40 to 50 headbands. That is to say, a set of handicraft materials is one tube of glue, 40 red flowers, and 40 wire rings."
"The labor fee is 1 cent for each set of materials completed. This is not difficult, but it requires precision. There should be no traces of glue, and the flowers must be clean."
Ji Hehua nodded and wrote down Qiao Baozhu's requests one by one in her notebook.
"The labor cost of making headbands is high, and the materials cost 10 cents for a set. I have tried it myself, and it is not a problem to glue 200 in a morning."
Forty pieces are ten cents, and two hundred pieces are fifty cents.
Wu Meili rolled her eyes. There were five idle people in her family. They sat on the warm kang, chatting and doing handicrafts. They easily finished a thousand in one morning.
One thousand pieces would cost 2.5 yuan, and that only takes a whole morning. If you work on it for a whole day, that would be five yuan.
Five dollars a day, one hundred and fifty dollars a month, one thousand eight hundred dollars a year.
Wu Meili's eyes welled up with tears and she was shaking with excitement.
Eighteen hundred. I can earn eighteen hundred a year.
What a huge sum of money! She had never seen so much money in her life.
“Haha. Haha. Haha. Hahahahahaha.”
Wu Meili imagined herself becoming rich instantly and smiled foolishly with excitement.
When Qiao Baozhu and a few others heard her laughing, they couldn't help but look at her in surprise.
"That's it. Sister Wu has started to fantasize again. The first time she was sewing shoe soles, she fantasized about sewing thirty pairs of soles a month. The last time she fantasized about buying a bicycle by making paper boxes."
Ji Hehua looked at Wu Meili and started to act silly again, and couldn't help shaking her head.
"I wonder what beautiful thing she dreamed about this time."
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