In order to tailor the fit of a dress shirt, you will look for which symbol that will help add shape to the garment and control fullness?

• Dots/squares

• Darts

• Notches

• Buttonholes

When a designer creates a pattern, what is added to ensure comfort and movability?

• Design ease

• Unisex

• Multisized

• Wearing ease

You need to press the darts on your blouse. Which tool should you use?

• Tailor's ham

• Press cloth

• seam roll

• Sleeve board

An important safety rule for both the sewing machine and serger is:

• never sew two layers of fabric

• never sew over pins

• never adjust the tension

• never turn the handwheel

Stitching with proper sewing machine tension should result in

• loops of thread on the bottom of the fabric

• skipped stitches

• almost indentical stitches on the top and bottom of the fabric

• loops of thread on the top of the fabric

You needed to iron your dress pants before going to work. When you placed the iron onto the pants, the fabric melted. What pressing equipment should you use in the future to prevent this from happening?

• Tailor's ham

• Seam gauge

• Seam roll

• Press cloth

The sewing machine is not stitching properly and is making a loud noise so you stop immediately. What shoul dyou do next?

• Check the threading

• Adjust the tension

• Ignore it and keep stitching

• Shorten the stitch length

Which part of the machine forms the bottom portion of the stitch?

• Presser foot

• Handwheel

• Feed dog

• Bobbin

Which machine part holds the fabric in place while stitching?

• Presser foot

• Hand wheel

• Feed dog

• Bobbin

The needle broke in the sewing machine. To replace it, you first need to loosen the needle:

• throat plate

• clamp screw

• spool pin

• bobbin winder