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