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