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Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Which company made the Featherweight portable sewing machine?
The Featherweight weighed about 11 pounds, so sewers carried it to classes and clubs.
Home sewing pattern pieces are printed on what thin paper?
The thin tissue lets sewers pin pieces to fabric and cut through both layers at once.
Home sewing pattern envelopes list thread, zippers, and buttons under what heading?
Pattern envelopes group extras as notions so shoppers buy matching thread, closures, and trims in one trip.
What does "cut on the fold" mean on a home sewing pattern?
Folding the fabric creates a mirror-image piece, useful for symmetrical fronts and backs.
What did many Singer treadle machines fold into when not sewing?
The closed wooden top hid the machine and gave small homes an extra side table.
What extra edge do home sewing pattern pieces include for stitching seams?
Most patterns build in a five-eighths-inch edge so seams can be stitched and trimmed evenly.
In reverse appliqué, which layer is cut away in places to reveal another color?
Panama's Guna makers use reverse appliqué to build colorful mola panels for blouses.
What commonly inspires the appliqué motifs on traditional Hawaiian quilts?
Makers often cut folded design fabric like a paper snowflake to create a repeating, symmetrical pattern.
In appliqué, what does a paper template help a quilter do?
Quilters can trace a template onto freezer paper, whose shiny side sticks temporarily to fabric when ironed.
In needle-turn appliqué, where does the quilter tuck the fabric's raw edge?
The folded edge hides loose threads and helps the sewn shape resist fraying.