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.
Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Shortening the garment.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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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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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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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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Putting a small piece of fabric to finish fabric edges (usually in necklines, armholes, hems and openings).
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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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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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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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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
