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