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