Sewing Turtleneck pattern from measurements

Today I have finally managed to complete the tutorial i have been wanting to make for a while now. Its a turtleneck shirt pattern made from measurements for my MSD dolls. I've made this shirt to be used as an undershirt for some armour that i will hopefully make in the future. This pattern is made without seam allowance and uses stretchy fabric to make the tight fitting shirt. So here we go:

The measurements you will need to take are:
A: From the base of the neck to the length of the shirt
B: Across the hips then Divide by 2
C: Across the waist then Divide by 2
D: Across the chest then Divide by 2 AND Across the back then Divide by 2 (for front and back pieces)
E: Base of the neck to the top of shoulder
F: Top of the shoulder to under the armpit + 1cm
G: Around the neck then Divide by 2
H: Around the Wrist
I: Around the top of the arm
J: Length of arm from shoulder
K: Length of arm from under armpit
Measurement guide front back
measurements guide sleeve

Pattern piece time!
Front/ Back pattern piece:
This can mostly be completed using the pictures as guides:
A
B
CDE -For this part of the pattern piece you need to make sure that the measurement E is just slightly tilted at an angle.
Front pattern piece curves
Top curve - This top curve is a little trickier to pull off, you want to mark where the measurement F is on the pattern piece and make the curve very shallow until that point and then curve it out the rest of the way for the chest piece.

And that the front piece all finished! To make the back piece, use the same measurements but use along the back instead of along the chest to make it tight fitting.

NOTE: I seem to have accidently used the wrong version of the draft patterns when making this tutorial for the front and back pieces, they should mostly turn out the same, but on the newer pattern pieces the top shoulder seam curve is more noticeable where the F measurement is. A link to the correct way the pattern pieces should look is here:
Front and back pattern pieces
The rest of the tutorial can still be followed the same way, and sewing the sleeves on will be considerably easier with the newer pattern pieces.

Now the Sleeves:
K
H
I - Make the line for measurement I first and then connect the top line to the bottom on each side to create the sleeve sides.
sleeve curve- Add the remaining length to the sleeve using measurement J from the bottom of the sleeve. And the you need to try and make the curve for the sleeve, it needs to match up to the same length as the inside of the front pattern piece, for an MSD doll it should be about 5cm. Measure the front pattern piece from the F measurement height to the top of the pattern piece and double the measurement to get the curve size. This might take a little bit of adjusting of the curve to get it to the right size.
Cuff pattern pieces:
20221231_123912 These are made using the measurement of H for the wrist cuff and G for the neck cuff. I then made them into a 1cm tall rectangle for the cuff.

You need to cut out 1 front pattern piece on the fold, 1 back pattern piece on the fold, 2 sleeve pieces and 2 neck cuffs and 2 wrist cuffs.

Now onto the sewing:
Step 1: Sew the neck cuffs onto both the front and back pattern pieces, connecting them to the middle of the pattern pieces and folding them over to create a nice edge. Sew them on good side to good side on top of the front and back pattern pieces. This picture should help show where they need to be sewn:
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Step 2: Sew the front and back pieces together at the shoulders, good sides together.
Shoulder seam guide

Step 3: Sew the neck cuff sides together to make them into a full loop.

Step 4: Sew the sleeves onto the big pattern piece, line up the middle of the sleeve piece to the middle of the shoulder seam and sew them together good sides together and then flip out. This can get a little tricky to do, so you need to take it slow and make sure that you sew the right sides together and check before you sew them.

Step 5: Sew the wrist cuffs onto the bottom of the sleeves, folding the wrist cuff over and sewing good side to good side to create a nice edge for the cuffs

Step 6: Hem the bottom parts of the t-shirt to create a nice edge.

Step 7: Match up the sides of the fabric pieces to create the t-shirt shape and sew them together, good sides together to make the finished t-shirt.

When its all done it should look something like this:
Turtleneck t-shirt

And that it! I hope you find this tutorial easy to use, i did try to explain it as simply as I could using the pictures but it has been a few weeks since i actually made the shirt. Good luck to anyone wanting to make one of these as well.

 

Sorry for all the links that I had to use for the tutorial, it didn't not seem to like me trying to add the pictures to this post so that was the best I could do!

 

Good luck, hope you have fun sewing this!