The Spring Festival is approaching, and there are some people around us who like to celebrate the New Year in their own way. Recently, Jin Xiaomei, a 46-year-old crochet artist in Longwan, used wool to crochet various welcome objects, decorating her life, and also sending holiday blessings and happiness to relatives and friends around her.
The zodiac woolen baby is very popular
On February 4, when the reporter came to Jin Xiaomei's house, she was doing the final finishing work for the "Little Dragon Man", chatting with us while constantly busy with the work in hand. A thread and a crochet needle flew freely in her hand, and in a moment it became a horn on the top of the dragonman's head.
The ingenious Jin Xiaomei is a polio patient and a veteran weaver girl who began to play with wool at the age of ten, especially good at knitting hats, gloves and sweaters. Five years ago, she fell in love with the art of crochet and has been enjoying it ever since. Every Spring Festival, Jin Xiaomei likes to crochet cute and cute 12 zodiac custom woolen dolls, rats, cows, tigers, rabbits and ......Friends and relatives can't put it down when they see it. Last year, the "cute rabbit" she painstakingly crocheted became a popular gift for the New Year.
This year is the Year of the Dragon, and in order to crochet a satisfactory Year of the Dragon doll, Jin Xiaomei has been looking for inspiration on the Internet since the beginning of December, and it was not until two days ago that she began to design and make it. I saw that the "little dragon man" in her hand looked quite cute, and she still had two long whiskers under her nose.
This 'little dragon man' is made of high-quality wool, which is not only wear-resistant and wear-resistant, but also has an unusual feelThe festive big red jacket is removable, and I made a hook on the top of her head that can be used as a keychain or as a decoration on her bag. Jin Xiaomei said, "The dragon means auspiciousness and is a symbol of good fortune. ”
Give my ninety-year-old grandmother a woolen flower hug bucket
The tables and cabinets in the balcony studio of Jin Xiaomei's home are full of woolen flowers of various colors. Sunflowers, peonies, roses, carnations, tulips, ......The small flowers are very miniature and most of them have faces, one by one, bunches and bunches, with green leaves, decorating the balcony with a spring mood.
Crocheting woolen flowers is also Jin Xiaomei's specialty. The traditional hook flower is flat, while the flower from Jin Xiaomei's hand is "three-dimensional", with different petal shapes, concave and convex curls, soft and realistic. Every New Year, when others go to the street to buy flowers to decorate the room, Jin Xiaomei can realize her wishes by sitting at home and doing it herself, and she can always bloom undefeated. No, in less than five minutes between the words, a bright rose was "fresh" baked.
Woolen flowers are also the favorite New Year's gifts of Jin Xiaomei's relatives and friends. Five years ago, Jin Xiaomei, who had just learned the art of crocheting, gave a handful of woolen flowers to her grandmother. Grandma loved it and put it in a vase to decorate the room. A few days ago, coinciding with the 90-year-old grandmother's birthday, Jin Xiaomei specially made a New Year's hug blessing bucket with woolen flowers as a gift, and the New Year's atmosphere at home is also full. On the same day, the unique hugging bucket amazed the audience, and the grandmother was quite surprised to receive the gift.
The art of crochet is to make others happy and to delight themselves
After doing housework every day, Jin Xiaomei was busy crocheting. Wool and other materials can be transformed into beautiful items in the hand, from sweaters, dresses, scarves, hats, slippers, to wallets, brooches, hairpins, etc., as well as all kinds of cute animals, fashionable dolls, beautiful flowers, decorative paintings, and a small crochet needle to weave a gorgeous life for her.
Over the years, Jin Xiaomei's woolen crochet skills have become well-known in Longwan, and the Women's Federation, Disabled Persons' Federation, and community in the district often invite her to hold public welfare training for crochet art lovers during holidays, and invite her to participate in charity sales of works. On weekdays, there is only an opportunity, and Jin Xiaomei also takes the initiative to participate in various volunteer activities to dedicate love.
In November 2022, Jin Xiaomei participated in the "Constant Love Action - Millions of Family Affection" public welfare activity launched by the All-China Women's Federation, crocheting sweaters for free to send warmth to children in Xinjiang and **.
Jin Xiaomei also has a hobby, that is, she likes to send crocheted woolen works to various ** accounts, which have attracted the attention of many netizens over time, with some accounts having more than 8,000 fans, and the number of likes and ** of individual works even reaches 100,000+.
Recently, a workwear vest woven by Jin Xiaomei was favored by a merchant who sold wool. On the same day, the merchant threw an olive branch to Jin Xiaomei and invited them to cooperate in selling sweater crochet material kits. Jin Xiaomei provides weaving tutorials, and you can receive a 30% commission for each order sold.
For Jin Xiaomei, this is also the best gift for the Year of the Dragon brought to her by the art of crocheting!
*: Temperature News client.