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.
The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Shortening the garment.
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Copying a pattern on a 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 small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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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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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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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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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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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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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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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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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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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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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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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.