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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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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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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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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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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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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Arranging folds formed by doubling fabric (to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference).
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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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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
