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 lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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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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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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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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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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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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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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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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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Shortening the garment.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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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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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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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.
