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