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.
Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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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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Getting smaller after washing.
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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 decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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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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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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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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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace 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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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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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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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
