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.
Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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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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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Converting fiber (cotton or rayon) into continuous yarn or thread.
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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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Smoothing or pressing clothes, linens, etc., with a heated iron.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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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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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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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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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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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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Getting smaller after washing.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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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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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
