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