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