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