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.
Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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Shortening the garment.
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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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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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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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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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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Making garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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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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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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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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Making a small cut on textile.
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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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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Putting thread inside a needle.
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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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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
