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.
Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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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 garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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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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Making a small cut on textile.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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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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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
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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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Shortening the garment.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
