Laundry Sewing Tools Sewing Machine Parts SewingMisc.

This is where you find information about how to wash and dry a garment.

What is care label?

This is the temperature of water used to wash dark colored clothing.

What is cold?

This is what you would do to prevent a white shirt from turning pink when washing.

What is sort by color?

This is a way to prevent clothing from shrinking.

What is wash in correct temperatures?

These are the three ways to sort clothes.

What is sort by color, fabric, and degree of soil?

This is the tool used to remove seams.

What is a seam ripper?

This is the tool used to cut fabric.

What are shears?

This is the notion used to hold fabric together before you sew.

What are pins?

This tool is used to mark fabric.

What is a marking pencil or chalk?

This is the tool that prevents fabric from raveling.

What are pinking shears?

This is used to hold the spool of thread.

What is a spool pin?

This controls the speed of sewing.

What is a foot control?

This part of the machine shows seam allowances.

What is the needle plate?

This part of the machine takes the thread up and down.

What is the thread take up lever?

This moves the fabric as the machine stitches.

What is the feed system or feed dogs?

This is the term used for sewing backwards over previous stitches to reinforce them.

What is backstitching?

This is the term used when you put the needle down, lift the presser foot, turn the fabric, and put the presser foot back down.

What is pivoting?

When the machine is being threaded, the presser foot needs to be in the _________ position.

What is in the up position.

This is the way to sew even seams.

What is using the needle plate measurements?

These are two ways to move the needle up and down through the fabric.

What are the foot pedal and the hand wheel?

This is the location of the presser foot.

What is under the needle?

This is why a hot iron should be place on its heel.

What are to prevent burns and scorches?

This is the difference between scissors and shears.

Shears are longer and have bent handles, used to cut fabric. Scissors are short, same size handles and used to trim thread.

This is the purpose of the spool cap.

What is used to hold the spool on the spool pin.

This is something that could happen if you don’t take clothes out the dryer right away.

What is wrinkling?