Contemporary Sewing Patterns for the Modern Maker
This Olive top that I made from offcuts of beautiful gauzy striped linen fulfils two important needs in my life. One it enables my scrap hoarding (you know how much I love sewing with scraps!) and two, for quite some time there has been a serious long sleeve top hole in my wardrobe.
I am so excited to finally be able to share with you my favourite Olive dress!! Yes, I went absolutely over the top nuts with fussy stripe placement and pattern matching on this make and I couldn’t be happier with the result!
One of my favourite things about the Olive sewing pattern is how much it lends itself to playing with print placement. You can be as pedantic or as casual as you’d like with this pattern… but obviously, I lent towards pedantic this time haha. As soon as I saw this striped cotton linen (which is available in my online store here) I fell in love with it. If I were to describe myself in colours, this would be it!
Can you believe the Olive sew along is all finished? We had so much fun taking you through each step and can’t wait to see your Olive makes! We talk a lot about all the different looks you can create using simple hacks for our patterns. So today’s blog post is all about the super simple ways to change up your pattern pieces to create a different look! If you have any ideas or if you’ve made some hacks of your own, be sure to share your makes with us so we can take a look! Just tag #MNolive and @megannielsenpatterns!
Let’s get going with all of the ideas we’ve put together! [Read more…]
We’ve loved showing you the gorgeous Olive & Opal makes from some of our favourite makers these past few weeks. The time following a release is always so exciting as we slowly see all of you get into your patterns! We had so many incredible makes we wanted to share that we’ve got a second maker email to share with you!
Take a look at these beautiful makes, and be sure to tag #MNopal or #MNolive and @megannielsenpatterns on Instagram when you post your own! We’d love to see and share your makes!
Last stop on our Olive sewalong, and its one more fun hack – a shift dress! And guess what? It has pockets! Of course, you don’t have to include the pockets. I know we all love pockets, but sometimes they can kind of ruin the silhouette of certain shapes, like this. BUT I wanted to make sure to include it as an option! Anyway, the process of extending the top into dress length is actually pretty simple, even if it seems photo-heavy below (I just went into detail!)
So you wanna just see? Let’s go!