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