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.
Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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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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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair 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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Making a small cut on textile.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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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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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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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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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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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
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Shortening the garment.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
