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.
Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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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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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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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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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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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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Arranging folds formed by doubling fabric (to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference).
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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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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Shortening the garment.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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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.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.