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