Olive Curve dress & blouse pattern

I absolutely love this dress, it’s so beautiful and the options for creative colour picks are endless. I find this pattern company really easy to work with, the instructions are clear on my PDF pattern. Lovely dress.

I’ve made one Olive Curve blouse since purchasing the pattern and it’s lovely, really nice fitting and I enjoyed making it, I’m not an experienced sewer by any means but the top came together really well and I’m hoping to make another very soon. I made it in quite a structured cotton and it looks very smart.

I’ve made a couple of the Olive blouses in lightweight linen. They’re easy to make, very comfortable, work with pants or skirts, and have a lovely neckline. As the pattern indicated, the v-neck insert can be “fiddly” to put in, but once you do one, it’s a breeze. I shortened it quite a bit—not to crop-top length, but to high-hip to accentuate my hourglass figure. I also lengthened it about an inch above the waistline since I’m tall. So I probably took off two inches in overall length.

I really enjoyed sewing the olive top in a striped viscose linen. The pattern is ideal of playing with stripes. It’s a fairly quick sew... the only challenging bit being the bottom of the V insert and there are a couple of options for this. I’m at the lower end of the curve size range but have a Very full bust and the curve pattern fits really nicely with no adjustment. I’m now planing a couple more!

What I really love about this pattern is how many variations you can make from it - there are some wonderful ideas on the blog. I'm going to use it as my basic pattern for the summer and make as many styles out of it as I can. I love that it doesn't have darts, but I'm taking one star off as I'm not sure about the fit in the bust/armscye area. I'm in the lower range of the Curve range so I'll try sizing down and see if that works better. One Olive down, many more to go!