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Badminton top – too wide on narrow shoulders

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    rimoxie @rimoxie

    I made size 4 for my daughter, and the body seems to fit ok, but the little shoulders/ruffles are slipping off her shoulders. I don’t know if she has narrow shoulders or if I should have sized down for her. Any recommendations on how to fix this? While I dread having to take apart that yoke and all the fiddly pieces, maybe I could take out an inch from the center back, to pull the shoulders closer together?

    thanks!

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    mkhs @mkhs

    I had the opposite problem, I went down a size and lengthened, and it wouldn’t fit over her head. I ended up cutting a whole new yoke, but it was much faster to sew up the second time around…

    So, if you do size down, make sure it will still go over her head!

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    Nicole @motherof5

    How disappointing for you.

    My girls are tiny so I tend to draft to their chest width and add length. However, that is an excellent point regarding the head circumference. Most of the things I sew have buttons.

    Would basting a tuck centre back and then flattening the tuck and and hand sewing it down work? Then when your little one grows she could wear it as a crop top or layered over a singlet top.

    You could just let out your stitching later.

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    with love Heidi @with love Heidi

    Can you put a piece of elastic in the back to bring it in? maybe unpick a little stitching on the back yoke and add very narrow elastic to yoke?

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