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