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.
Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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Making a decorative stitch on the top of material.
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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Shortening the garment.
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Tightening cloth during alterations.
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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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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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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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Adding decorative or fanciful details such as sequins, beads, crystals, lace etc.
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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Forming by interlacing threads, yarns, strands, or strips of some material.
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Inserting an inner layer of fabric or fur into clothing, hats etc.
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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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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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Interlacing three or more strands of flexible material such as yarn, wire, hair etc.
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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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Carving a pattern from paper or textile.
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Sewing small pieces of cloth into patterns.
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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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Removing seams with a ripper.
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Putting a small piece of fabric to finish fabric edges (usually in necklines, armholes, hems and openings).
