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.
Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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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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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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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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Sewing where the line of stitching is designed to be seen from the outside of the garment.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Shortening the garment.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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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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Getting smaller after washing.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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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).