Reddit reviews Patterns From Finished Clothes: Re-Creating the Clothes You Love
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I would recommend the following books:
New Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing
Old Reader's Digest Complete Guide
Patterns from Finished Clothes
Do find your local sewing shop and get the serger in to be looked at. Once it does what you want it will do it FAST and it's perfect for knit clothing.
Tracing existing garments to make clothing is hard! That's why so many flat patterns sell. If you don't want to work with a commercial pattern to start with, consider picking up a good reference book for making knock-off garments (like https://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Finished-Clothes-Re-Creating-Love/dp/0806948752).
(And get yourself a nice french curve for making your seam lines nice and pretty.)
If it's very worn out, you can pick it apart, but some people think it's better to copy the garment when it's intact because you can see how it was put together. Patterns from Finished Clothes is a good book on how to make a rub-off. The clothes in the photos are dated, but the instructions are better than in any other book I've found.
Start by making some muslins. Mike Maldonado has free and for-fee videos on shirt making that are very good. You also may able to get some help from the Cutter and Tailor forum.
David Page Coffin, a former Senior Editor at Threads Magazine, has made a video on copying a shirt. I would treat it as an overview. In my experience, it's not as easy as it looks.
I really like this book for doing just that.