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.
Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Shortening the garment.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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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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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length 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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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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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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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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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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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Arranging folds formed by doubling fabric (to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference).
