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.
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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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Shortening the garment.
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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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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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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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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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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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Sewing where the line of stitching is designed to be seen from the outside of the garment.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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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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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
