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.
The act of changing or remaking clothes to fit better.
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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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Repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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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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Using a narrow fabric to finish raw edges.
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Shortening the garment.
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Buttoning up or zipping up.
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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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Copying a pattern on a textile.
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Discovering the exact size or amount of something.
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Getting smaller after washing.
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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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Forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn.
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Undoing twisted, knitted, or woven threads.
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Making a small cut on textile.
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Finishing hem by using overlock.
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Sewing temporarily with loose stitches.
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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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Bringing together a piece of fabric to manage fullness e.g. when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
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Removing seams with a ripper.
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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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Making lines by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
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Creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread using a special hook.
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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 garments different in some particular, as size, style, length etc.
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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.