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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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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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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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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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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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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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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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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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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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 a small cut on textile.
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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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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Sewing where the line of stitching is designed to be seen from the outside of the garment.
