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.
Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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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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Arranging folds formed by doubling fabric (to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference).
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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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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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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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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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Shortening the garment.
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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 lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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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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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some 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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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
