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.
Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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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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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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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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Getting smaller after washing.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Shortening the garment.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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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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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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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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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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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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Making a small cut on textile.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
