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.
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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Putting thread inside a needle.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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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 a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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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.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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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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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Shortening the garment.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair 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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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Copying a pattern on a 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 by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
