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.
Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Shortening the garment.
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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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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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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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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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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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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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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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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Putting a small piece of fabric to finish fabric edges (usually in necklines, armholes, hems and openings).
