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.
Sewing where the line of stitching is designed to be seen from the outside of the garment.
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Shortening the garment.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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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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Arranging folds formed by doubling fabric (to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference).
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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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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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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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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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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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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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
