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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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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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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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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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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Getting smaller after washing.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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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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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Shortening the garment.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.