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.
Arranging folds formed by doubling fabric (to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference).
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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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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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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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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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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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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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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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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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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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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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
