This is an easy way to sew a women's or children's T-shirt with your own hands. The pattern is not needed - it will be replaced by a suitable and well-fitting ready-made T-shirt. In addition, the matter is facilitated by the fact that it will not be necessary to cut out and sew in the sleeves separately: here they turn out to be one-piece. Therefore, T-shirts with short sleeves are suitable as a reference.

You will need:

Two types of knitwear: for the T-shirt itself and for finishing;

Scissors;

Pencil or fabric marker;

Flexible ruler (you can do with a centimeter);

Overlock;

Ready-made T-shirt for a sample.

Sequence of work:

1. Fold the jersey for a T-shirt in half as shown in the photo. Fold the sample T-shirt in half, put fold to fold on the jersey, outline the contours of the future T-shirt and cut out one piece of the T-shirt.

2. Now, using the cut out part as a template, cut out a second one of the same part in the same way.

3. Cut the neckline deeper into the front details. Focus on the same sample T-shirt.

4. Fold the pieces face to face and sew one of the shoulder seams. If you don't have an overlock, check out how to sew jersey on a sewing machine.

5. Straighten the T-shirt as shown in the photo, and measure the desired length of the part for processing the neckline.

6. Cut out a piece for processing the neckline of the desired width, bearing in mind that it will be folded in half lengthwise.

7. Fold the parts as shown in the photo and sew them together.

8. Now sew the second shoulder seam.

The following materials are required for sewing a T-shirt: main fabric, ribbons for processing the neck and bottom of the sleeves, scissors, chalk.

The fabric must be washed and ironed before opening to prevent further shrinkage. For sewing a T-shirt, cotton fabrics (wader, interlock), thin jersey are suitable.

Progress:

1. Fold the fabric with the right side inward, place the details of the pattern to the fold, circle it with chalk, you can use a piece of soap instead of chalk.

If striped fabric is selected, the pattern must be positioned so that the strip is aligned on the shelf and back.

2. We cut out the details, adding allowances for processing on the side cuts 1 cm, along the shoulder and bottom cuts 2.5 cm

3. Fold the back and shelf with the front sides inward, grind the side cuts at a distance of 1 cm

4. Sew shoulder cuts at a distance of 2.5 cm

5. We sweep the side and shoulder cuts from the side of the shelf

6. Iron the side and shoulder seams on the back

7. Sew and overcast sleeve cuts

8. We put the sleeve into the main part of the T-shirt with the front sides inward, aligning the side seams

9. Sewing on the sleeve, laying the line at a distance of 1 cm from the side of the sleeve

10. We sweep the cuts of the armholes

11. Ribbon is used to process the neckline and bottom of the sleeves of T-shirts. Ribana is a very elastic stretchable material, so the ribana strips should be several cm smaller than the cuts of the neck and sleeves. The width of the strips is 6cm (ready-made - 2.5cm)

12. Fold the strips with the right side inward and grind the cross-sections

13. Fold the resulting rings along

14. Align the neckline and stripes, placing the ribbing seam on the back of the T-shirt next to the shoulder seam. Sewing the facing, stitching the stitch to the width of the foot, evenly pulling the ribana

15. In the same way we process the bottom of the sleeves, combining the seams on the hem and sleeve

16. We sweep the cuts from the ribana side

17. To process the bottom of the T-shirt, bend the bottom cut inward by 0.5 cm, then bend it again by 2 cm. Sew it at a distance of 1-2 mm from the fold, you can first sweep it

18. Making a patch pocket. For a patch pocket, match fabric in the color of the ribana, or a companion fabric to the main fabric, then the T-shirt will look more fun. We cut out a pocket 18 * 14cm, as well as a strip from the main fabric for decor 18 * 5cm

We put a strip in the middle of the pocket detail on the front side. We bend the longitudinal sections of the strip inward by 0.5-0.7 cm and grind at a distance of 1-2 mm from the edge

We turn the upper cut of the pocket by 0.5 cm, then by 2 cm and sew close to the fold

We put the pocket on the shelf and we sweep, bending the sections of the pocket inward by 0.5 cm

We sew a pocket at a distance of 1-2 mm from the fold, remove the basting threads

Installing a shirt button on your pocket using a press

19. Iron all seams, remove excess threads.

Among those who love to sew, knitted clothes are traditionally held in high esteem. At the top of handicraft "charts" is the sewing of children's clothes, in particular, underwear. Kids need a lot of this good, and the store assortment of T-shirts and panties is not always pleasing with quality and price. So an ordinary sewing machine can help out here. Sewing a T-shirt for a boy is pretty easy, but you need to choose the right fabrics and seams. We will talk about this in our current master class!

Sewing materials and tools:

• Linen ribana color "gray melange" (100% cotton) - 0.5 m,
• Ribana with gray melange elastane - 4 cm,
• Gray thin threads that would fit fabrics,
• Fabric scissors,
• Pins for fixing fabrics,
• A household sewing machine that has the necessary stitches (straight, stretch and overlock), as well as two interchangeable hats (zigzag foot and overlock foot).

The pattern of a children's T-shirt is quite simple: it consists of a shelf and a back of the product. You can circle your toddler's jersey yourself to sew the same size, or slightly enlarge the circled template to make the shirt grow longer. You can also use a ready-made pattern that you can download (model 35), but we sewed a T-shirt without a pocket, which was offered in the original.

Manufacturing:

1. The main fabric of the shirt will be ribana without elastane. Firstly, it is more delicate than ribana with elastane, and secondly, it does not contain synthetic fibers, which is extremely important for underwear. Unlike ribana with elastane, this material can deform: fabrics without synthetics tend to stretch. But this "sin" is not so heavy as to use a different, more synthetic material for the shirt. So feel free to apply the pattern of the front and back of the T-shirt to the ribana without elastane and cut out these details.

2. Details of the edging of the neckline and cutouts for the arms do not need to be cut out yet: their sizes will depend on the finished cutouts of the shirt. Therefore, first you will need to sew the shelf with the back, and only after that - cut the edging. Fold the front and back of the shirt together (so that the wrong side of both fabrics is outside) and pin the shoulder lines together.

3. Stitch the shoulder lines with an elastic stitch. Then change the sewing machine foot to the overlock foot and overcast the edges of the shoulder seams. Then turn the product inside out, fold the allowances of the shoulder lines on the wrong side towards the front part and sew with a straight line, which will press the allowances to the wrong side.

4. Now that the shoulder seams have been sewn, measure the perimeter of the neckline of the shirt. ¾ of this number - this will be the length of the neckline, which should be cut out of the ribana with elastane. Well, the width of this strip should be 4-5 cm. Having cut out the edging, fold it in half and smooth it with a warm iron.

5.Sew the piping from the wrong side until it becomes a donut. Place it inside the neckline and pin it to the main fabric of the garment. In this case, the folded edge of the edging will "look" downward into the shirt.

6. Stitch on the piping with an elastic seam, then carefully cut off any excess seam allowances with fabric scissors.

7. Wrap the ironed edge of the piping over the front of the shirt and secure with a basting stitch.

8. Set a straight stitch on the machine (with regular zigzag foot) and sew on the right side of the edge of the piping.

9. Turn the shirt inside out and fix the sides of the garment with pins.

10. Sew the side lines with an elastic stitch and overcast the edges of these seams.

11. The base of the shirt is already ready, so you can turn it right out and measure the circumference of the arm cutouts. Similar to the edging of the neckline, cut two stripes out of the ribana with elastane for edging the cutouts of the arms. Fold them in half and sew in exactly the same way as you sewed the neckline.

In summer, you can't do without an open jersey T-shirt. The pattern of a women's T-shirt is very simple to build according to your measurements. When constructing a pattern for a women's T-shirt, it should be taken into account that the knitted fabric is stretched by about 15-20% of its original size.

Therefore, when constructing a T-shirt pattern, 15% of the measured value must be subtracted from the value of the half-girth of the chest.

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Before you start building a pattern for a women's T-shirt, you need to take the following measurements:

Chest girth- 92 cm (half bust - 46 cm)

Back length to waist- 38 cm

Armhole depth to measure- 21-22 cm

Hip height(measured from the waist line to the hip line on the side) - 20 cm

From point A downwards, lay the length of the back to the waist according to the measurement - point T.

From point T downward, lay the height of the hips to measure - point B.

Draw horizontal lines. Lower the perpendicular down from point B.

T-shirt neckline. From point A to the right, set aside 7 cm and down 15 cm. Draw the neckline of the front of the T-shirt along the pattern.

Shoulder width of the shirt. From the point of the neckline to the right, set aside 3 cm - the width of the shirt shoulder. Up from the left point of the shoulder, set aside 1.5 cm - lifting the shoulder.

Draw an armhole cutout on the pattern as shown in Fig. 1.

From point T1 to the left, set aside 2.5 cm. Draw a line for the side of the shirt as shown in fig. 1 T-shirt front pattern.

Building a pattern for the back of a T-shirt

The pattern of the back of the T-shirt is built similarly to the pattern of the front of the T-shirt, with the exception of the neckline of the back — from deeper. For a detailed drawing of the T-shirt back pattern, see fig. 2 T-shirt back pattern.

How to cut a T-shirt

Front pattern - 1 piece with a fold

Back pattern - 1 piece with a fold

Allowances at the seams of the shirt - 0.5 cm, allowances for the neckline and armholes do not (!), Allowances at the bottom of the shirt - 2 cm.

You will need: an oblique ready-made knitted tape for processing the armholes and neck of the shirt and a double needle for hemming the bottom of the shirt.

How to sew a T-shirt

Fold together face to face and sew on overlock or zig-zag seam (stitch width 4 mm, stitch length 2 mm) the side seams of the shirt and the shoulder seams of the shirt.

Tuck the bottom of the shirt and stitch it with a double needle.

Bend the ready-made oblique knitted trim in half, wrap it around the neckline of the T-shirt and topstitch it, slightly stretching along the edge of the tape. Tuck the ends of the inlay and restitch (at the side seams). Treat the armholes of the shirt in the same way.

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Sewing tops and T-shirts is quick and easy. Part 1.

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Good afternoon, my dear self-taught seamstresses. I continue to publish articles of the sewing cycle. As you remember, 2-3 months ago I told about a simple and understandable way to create. The very one, according to which all other dresses, T-shirts, blouses, jackets and even coats are created and sewn))).

Then I decided to take a break and not immediately rush into battle with a ready-made basic pattern, but change the topic a little and tell you about the shuttlecocks - so another one was born.

And today I feel a surge of strength, sufficient to return to modeling based on our basic pattern... You, of course, are all waiting for me to tell you about the dress. But I will disappoint you.

We will not start with dresses, we will start with tops and T-shirts and through them we will begin to sneak up on dresses

Because if you created your very first base pattern for your very first time, then the first product you sewn may not turn out as beautiful as you expected - and this will finally kill your faith in your abilities (which I am by no means I want to admit). I know a bunch of people who drew patterns, cut fabrics, sewed cut pieces together, put them on themselves, looked in the mirror and GET DISRUPTED.

This usually happens for the following reasons.

1. The first reason... Your pattern was made with a mistake, and you realized this after you had cut and connected the details of the dress. In the wrong pattern could be to blame incorrect measurement, inattentive adherence to the instructions for drawing a pattern, or the author himself who wrote a training article. Even I, the great and terrible Klishevskaya, can be mistaken (I'm also a human, not a robot), sometimes I find mistakes in my articles and rewrite them from BEFORE publication on the site, and sometimes AFTER you notice it, dear readers (yes, yes there was such a case).
2. The second reason. You chose not your style of dress and it (although it was sewn correctly) does not suit you, simply because you do not look like that sensual blonde whose photo in a beautiful pink dress inspired you to sewing feats. It's like in a store - dresses hanging in your size range do not always suit your body type (out of 20 dresses in your size, one or two look good on you. That is why I always advise: before you sew anything, find and try on yourself a model with a similar cut; find out if this style suits you, or it is better not even to start sewing it.

Based on these considerations, let's start carefully, be patient without a dress. We will sew, for starters, a couple of cool topics. You will see it will please you, because ...

At first, very little material is needed for the top(in case of a mistake, you risk "spoiling" a small piece of fabric). Top is an ideal way to test your pattern for professional fitness. On a topic, you are without fear in your hands and eyes, you will process the armholes, the neckline - practice, fill your hand - and already you will approach sewing a dress from the position of a "seasoned and experienced fashion designer"))).

Secondly, the topic has one indisputable advantage - it is small. And therefore it is sewn very quickly. You will be delighted with such an instant and easy end result of your sewing experiments.

Thirdly, the topic is easier to sew than the dress; in fact, the topic itself looks like the upper part of a dress of the same style as itself. In theory, by mentally lengthening any topic, we will see a dress. That is why we start working with the firebox.

See for yourself - if we learn to do TOPIK on a round yoke, then after that it will be easy and simple for us to sew already DRESS with a round yoke.

After we practice sewing TOP with flounces, we fearlessly go to buy fabric for a similar "Ruffled" DRESS.

And after sewing TOP with U-shaped with the neckline, where the halves of the bodice overlap each other, we will calmly begin to cut similar dress- even our bodice pattern from the top will suit it, all that remains for us is to lengthen the lower "hem" part of the topic.

In general, I hope you get the idea - what I mean. We will start working with tops, to fill your hand and eye for sewing an already more ambitious project called "DRESS».

Now let's see

what tops for sewing I have prepared for you for the near future.

We will start with simple models and gradually move forward as they become more complex.

in the second article of the series about topics - we will consider

In the fourth part we will sew

In the fifth part - we sew