Baseball tee tutorial

I used to own at least 5 baseball tees growing up because of my love of the sport! Whether it was because I loved to play it with my brothers or watch it at Safeco Field when the Mariners would play, it has always been my favorite sport. So when I started to see this baseball tee trend showing up here and there I got so excited. I thought...I already own a ton of these tops already that I have inherited through my brothers so why don't I make my very own and add a girly twist to it?! And voila, there you have it.

Supplies:

White knit fabric or a white tee (enough for the front and back of the top)

knit fabric for the sleeves (enough for some sleeves and collar)
Tee shirt to help trace (make sure it is the same strechiness as the fabric)

sewing machine

thread

scissors

pins 

Instructions:

1. Cut out some white fabric for the main part of the baseball tee, like the first picture below. Do this by  taking a regular knit tee shirt that has the same amount of stretch as the fabric. Then measure, mark, and cut out the white fabric along the tee shirt you are using to trace, but for the sleeve openings mark/cut from the where the armpit will be to the top of where you would want the collar to be (this takes place of the main shoulder seam on a normal tee). Sew up the side seams. Go to instruction #2 unless you want a rounder neckline like the picture above.

***If you want the collar to be up by your neck, then keep the neckline where it is. But if you wanted it more rounded and low like mine in the picture above, then cut  an inch or more off the top with a curve.  

2. Cut out sleeves by cutting a normal sleeve that would hit right before the elbow, then instead of cutting the normal sleeve opening, like your tee shirt you are using to trace (unless its a baseball tee!), cut the opening of the sleeves, where your shoulder will be, to be the same size and angle as the sleeve openings of the white fabric. It will be a sharp angle.

3. Sew up the sides to be a tube.

4. Pin and sew the sharp angle opening of the sleeves and white shirt to each other, right sides together. There shouldn't be a shoulder seam, the white may or may not touch and that is ok! If you cut out an inch or more from the top for the lower neckline, then the white won't be touching by inches. You can round out the tip of the sleeve to make it more round for the lower collar).

5. Hem the sleeve and inch with zig zag stitch and or stretch the sleeve and sew a straight stitch like I did.

6. Hem the bottom and inch with zig zag stitch and or stretch the sleeve and sew a straight stitch like I did.

 7. Align the side seams up and cut the front and back lower if you want.
8. Cute a 2 inch strip of material that matches the sleeves, make sure that it is stretchy long ways. Fold and iron in half.
9. Pin it around the collar, pinning the raw edges of the collar and the neckline together on the outside of the shirt. Make sure that you stretch the strip of fabric as you pin, this will make the neckline not gape and it will lay flat and tight. Sew it to the  neckline with a vari-overlock stitch or zig zag stitch stretching the strip as you sew.
10. When you get to the two ends of the strip, leave an inch from the ends. Unfold the ends.
11. Pin the ends right sides together, aligning the crease in the middle. Sew together.
12. Looks like the last picture. Complete the neckline with this newly sewn together seam.
13. IRON!