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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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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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 a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Shortening the garment.
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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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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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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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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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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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Sewing where the line of stitching is designed to be seen from the outside of the garment.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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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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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
