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.
Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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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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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Shortening the garment.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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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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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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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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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
