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