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.
Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Shortening the garment.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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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 a small piece of fabric to finish fabric edges (usually in necklines, armholes, hems and openings).
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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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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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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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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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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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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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
