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the_professors_assistanthello. Sorry for the delay, I’m in the process of moving so things are a little crazy for me right now. I think you can definitely recreate this t. The yoke definitely seems to be throwing you for a loop but hopefully we can make things a little more simple. If it was me, I would recreate the the front, back and sleeve, pretending that there’s no yoke pieces. So you have a full front and back. It looks like only the front has the separate blue yoke. Taking the front pattern, draw a line across the top, making the division between the bottom of the shirt and the top yoke. Cut along this line and now the front is two pieces. Now take the yoke piece and draw a line for the division of the blue and gray yoke, cut along this line and now the front is three pieces. Since the gray is curved, you can take your gray yoke pattern piece and just add the curved extension, so the it looks similar, at the top of this pattern, I would put “place on fold, since it looks like it wraps around to the back and is a single piece. I wouldn’t try to do a curved out piece on the sleeve, simply do the sleeve as normal and when you sew the gray yoke on, just stitch it over the cap of the sleeve and you’ll get a similar look.
For increasing the size, I would add to all the side seams. Just realize that if you add 1/4″ to the front and back side seam, then you’re increasing a total of 1″ overall to the width of the tshirt. I know it doesn’t seem like a big increase but the number is ultimately multiplied by 4. The sleeve would be multiplied by 2 so increasing 1/2″ on each side of the sleeve would be 1” total.
I hope this isn’t too confusing. You can do it!