the slouchy batwing top pattern {easy + flattering!}

In today's post: This batwing summit pattern is super piece of cake to run up and looks bully on all body types!

Hey guys, I accept a new, super like shooting fish in a barrel, dandy free sewing pattern for you today. Here'south why it'due south then smashing: information technology'south roomy and slouchy, which makes it super comfortable, and in that location are no fix in sleeves or hems, which makes information technology really easy to sew. In fact, there'due south only one pattern piece for the front and back of the shirt and then a few rectangles to end off the sleeves, hem, and neckline. Hither's why it'south not so keen: the pattern is only in a size large. Alas. Notwithstanding, it's such an easy pinnacle to make that yous could probably figure out your ain pattern in whatever size you demand past using this blueprint and a t-shirt that fits y'all as reference.

I shared the like shooting fish in a barrel tee (simplest women's t-shirt) pattern a few years ago. Like this i, that shirt has no set in sleeves – just faux cap sleeves made by extending the shirt by the shoulder. It's a super fast sew, and I've fabricated quite a few, but in my old age I'm finding that I prefer shirts that cover more of my upper arm. (I'one thousand the choir director at church, and I hate information technology when I wear a cap sleeved superlative on ane of the Sundays nosotros sing for the congregation 'cuz I'm upwardly there waving my arm away like I but don't intendance – when in fact I exercise care, more than I should, about the crazy corporeality of jiggling going on nether my arm.)

Anyway, sometimes a prissy elbow-length sleeve is just a good thing.

This shirt is actually a pretty weird shape when it's not on. It looks like this – hence the term batwing top:

Odd, I know, but it works…as long as y'all stitch information technology up in a soft, drapey, stretchy knit fabric. Anything with too much body will probably end up looking dumpy. Simply something delicate and drapey volition requite you the slouchy, relaxed look we're going for. Plus I gotta say that I beloved not having textile right under my arm. Makes my pits dainty and informal. Not that I'm unremarkably a sweaty person, but you know, chasing kids around all twenty-four hours can requite anyone's deodorant a workout.

Alright, at present that you all retrieve I'm a stinky person, let's see how easy it is to make this meridian.

Women's batwing meridian blueprint

Download the costless slouchy tee pattern in women's size L by clicking here. Print information technology out at 100% and check that the examination foursquare measures exactly 1 inch. There are six pages and you'll desire to tape them together and so they look like this:

Practice not trim the margins off the pages! Just barrel the pages up against each other, tape, and cutting. Where the arm goes off the folio, simply cutting right to the edge of the page. You'll need 1.5-two yards of 55-60 inch wide knit textile to make this peak (depending on how you lot cutting out the pattern pieces). Because you demand to cut 2 of the main piece it may exist helpful to print 2 copies of information technology so you can effigy out how to all-time fold and lay out your fabric.

Cutting 2 of the master blueprint slice from your fabric, BOTH ON THE FOLD. Cut one with the higher "back" neckline, and one with the lower "front end" neckline. You'll also see dimensions on the design to cutting a neckband, sleeve cuffs, and hem bands.  Once everything is cut out, yous'll have the pieces yous see below:

one. Shirt front end (shown folded)

ii. Shirt back (shown folded)

three. Neck band: 3 inches alpine and 28 inches wide (fabric should stretch along the width)

4. 2 Hem bands (shown folded): viii inches tall and 22 inches broad (fabric should stretch along the width)

5. two Sleeve cuffs (shown folded): viii inches alpine and 12 inches wide (fabric should stretch forth the width)

Starting time by placing the shirt front and shirt back right sides together. Sew across shoulder seams and downward side seams, as shown below. Please use a sew that has some stretch in it, like a narrow zig zag, stretch stitch, or serger. If you but apply a straight stitch it may pop one time you put the shirt on, particularly under the artillery. If you are using a very stretchy or delicate knit, y'all may want to reinforce the shoulder seams (run across an instance of that in this post).Employ 1/two inch seam assart on all seams.

Next we'll add the sleeve cuffs. Follow the photos below:

1 – Place sleeve cuff down flat. 2 – fold one side over to match the short ends, right sides together. Run up. Y'all now accept a circumvolve of material. 3 – fold again, the time with the wrong sides touching, to class a cuff. At this point y'all want to stop and try the gage on. When you lot slide it up above your elbow it should exist just tight enough to stay there past itself. Depending on how stretchy your material is, in that location'southward a proficient run a risk you'll demand to have information technology in and resew the seam from step 2.

4 – Lay the shirt down flat, correct side out. Slide the sleeve cuff over the sleeve portion of the shirt, with the fold of the cuff in toward the body of the shirt. 5 – Match the raw edges of the gage to the raw edges of the shirt sleeve, then pin and stitch. The gage volition be a little smaller than the shirt sleeve, then you lot'll want to stretch information technology gently as you run up to make it fit.

Once it's sewn on, flip the cuff out and press. Repeat with the other sleeve.

Next, you'll finish the neckline. Your neckband piece is cut to 28 inches, just it will probable need to be trimmed fifty-fifty shorter. The correct width here really depends on how stretchy your fabric is. 24 inches is probably good for material with a medium stretch (the material I used was very stretchy so I went with 22 inches – for something with less stretch you'll probably desire to apply about 26 inches). You'll sew together the short ends of your neckband together to make a circle. Then fold the band in one-half all forth the circle and printing.

Pin the neckband to the neckline of the shirt, matching the raw edges (so the folded border of the collar is downwardly and the raw edge is up). The ring volition be shorter than the neckline, so it will demand to be stretched slightly equally you pivot and stitch.

Sew the neckline to the neck (again using a run up that volition stretch!), and then flip the neckband up. Information technology may look wonky at first, just once you press information technology with some steam information technology should lay nice and apartment. (For a few more photos of this process, visit the original easy tee post.)

Finally, you'll add the hemband. This is the exact same procedure you used with the sleeve bands. Sew the two hem band pieces together, correct sides together, along the short ends. Fold information technology in one-half so the wrong sides are together and seams are hidden.

Stop and try it on! You lot may desire the band to hug your hips, in which case y'all'll probably need to take a niggling width out. If you make up one's mind to do that, decide if you besides desire to narrow the lesser of the shirt a fleck. If yous don't, and the hem band is much smaller than the bottom of the shirt, the shirt will blouse or puff out slightly where it meets the hemband (which can exist a good matter depending on the wait you lot're going for).* If you don't desire the shirt to blouse out at the bottom, taper the sides of the shirt until the bottom of the shirt is the aforementioned width every bit the hemband. Alternately, you can leave the hemband the original width and the shirt will be straight and roomy at the bottom.

Merely similar you did with the sleeves, slide the hem band upwardly over the lesser of the shirt, matching raw edges and pinning. Sew together, stretching the hem band slightly equally needed to fit. Flip it down and press well.

*You may notice that the hem band was smaller than the shirt in these photos, but it doesn't hug my hips much when it's on – it almost simply hangs completely directly. That's because the fabric I used is very stretchy without much recovery, significant the hemband concluded up stretching out to the width of the shirt.

Ok, that seems like a lot of explanation, simply this batwing top design is actually quite a quick sew. Allow me know if yous give it a try!

Fabric details: taupe blackness hacci sweater knit from Girl Charlee

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Source: https://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/slouchy-tee-free-womens-sewing-pattern.html

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