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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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Shortening the garment.
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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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Sewing where the line of stitching is designed to be seen from the outside of the garment.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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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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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace 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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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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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.
