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.
Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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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 lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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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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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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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 thread inside a needle.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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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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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Shortening the garment.
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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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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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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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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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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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Arranging folds formed by doubling fabric (to gather a wide piece of fabric to a narrower circumference).
