Making clothes and sewing require from a dressmaker / seamstress many activities. Before you get a final custom-made garment she measures, selects, adjusts, draws, cuts and finishes. Do you know all the sewing activities? Take the test to verify your knowledge concerning verbs.
Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Sewing where the line of stitching is designed to be seen from the outside of the garment.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Arranging folds formed by doubling fabric (to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference).
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Shortening the garment.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Putting a small piece of fabric to finish fabric edges (usually in necklines, armholes, hems and openings).
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.