| A | B |
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| Sewing Machine | Mechanized tool for creating textile items. |
| Rotary Cutter | A round razor blade used for cutting straight or curved lines in fabric. |
| Tracing Paper | One sided ink paper used to mark fabric. |
| Seam Ripper | Tool used for the removal of hand or machine sewn stitches. |
| Yardstick | 3 feet or 36 inches; used for finding the lengthwise grain. |
| Straight Pins | Pins with a head at one end; use to baste |
| Threader | Tool used to get thread through eye of a needle. |
| Fabric Markers | Permanent markers for fabric. |
| Ironing Board | Only safe surface to use an iron. |
| Iron | A hot tool used for removing wrinkles or creating a crease. |
| Hand Sewing Needle | A needle with the eye away from the tip. |
| Shears | Long bladed scissors used for fabric ONLY. |
| Tape Measure | A long, flexible measuring tool. |
| Scissors | A small tool used to cut threads and pattern pieces. |
| Thimble | A steel cap to prevent finger pricks. |
| Pattern | Sewing directions. |
| Sewing Machine Needle | Needle for the sewing machine; eye is near the point |
| Pin Cushion | Straight pin holder. |
| Eye | The hole thread goes through in a needle. |
| Seam Guage | A tool used to measure a seam allowance. |
| Tracing Wheel | Tool used to apply pattern lines to fabric. |
| Safety Pin | An item used for pulling elastic/drawstrings through waistbands. |
| Pinking Shears | V-shaped cutting edge; used to clean finish fabric. |
| Pressing | Using iron in a lifting and dropping motion to create a crease in fabric |
| Pin basting | holding part to be sewn in place using straight pins |
| Hand basting | holding part to be sewn in place using long, loose stitches using a hand sewing needle |
| Machine basting | holding the part to be sewn in place using long, loose stitches using a sewing machine |
| Seam allowance | 5/8" piece of fabric between edge and stitches (seam) |
| Basting | holds the project in place for you to sew |
| Backstitching | Reversing sewing direction and the beginning and end of a seam to knot it |
| Pivot | Turning the fabric around the needle after lifting the presser foot |
| Clean finish | zig zag stitches or cut with pinking shears to keep fabric from raveling |
