Sewing equipment vocabulary

Question 1

Yard Stick

Answer 1

Made of a hard wood or metal, a yardstick is useful for checking hems and drawing long lines.

Question 2

Tape measure

Answer 2

used primarily for taking body measurements, as well as for drafting patterns, measuring fabric, laying out patterns on fabric, specifying the length of a garment, checking the size of hems.

(hems are the ends of cloths)

Question 3

Shears

Answer 3

Bent handles used to cut out fabric ONLY!

Question 4

Scissors

Answer 4

flat and used to cut paper.

Question 5

Seam ripper

Answer 5

is a pointed tool used to remove unwanted stitches, threads and to open a buttonhole.

Question 6

Fabric marker

Answer 6

useful for transferring sewing pattern markings.

Question 7

Straight pins

Answer 7

hold your fabric together to cut or sew.

Question 8

Hand sewing needles

Answer 8

used for hand-sewing, is a long slender tool with a pointed tip at one end and a hole (or eye) at the other.

Question 9

Pin cushion

Answer 9

used in sewing to store pins or needles with their heads protruding to take hold of them easily, collect them, and keep them organized.

Question 10

Pins

Answer 10

temporarily hold layers of fabric together

Question 11

Button

Answer 11

a disliked piece of solid material having holes or a shank through which it is sewed to one side of an article of clothing and used to fasten or close the garment by passing through a loop or hole in the other side.

Question 12

Spool of thread

Answer 12

a cylinder that holds the thread.

Question 13

Thread

Answer 13

tightly twisted strand of two or more plys of yarn that are circular when cut in a cross section.

Question 14

Sewing Machine Bobbin

Answer 14

the bottom thread when using a sewing machine.

Question 15

Safety pin

Answer 15

a pin with a point that is bent back to the head and is held in a guard when closed.