Make by TFS

Ivy Dress + Top Roundup

Posted
10—June 2021

We're so excited to show you the Ivy makes our team has been working on! Read on for inspo!

Our Ivy Dress + Top pattern is an everyday staple - a modern dress + top pattern with options galore! This pattern suits a variety of light-mid weight woven fabrics.

The Dress (View A) features a boxy straight-fit through the bodice with a dropped waist and a generous gathered full skirt, in-seam pockets, and a deep turned-back hem.

The Top (View B) features a fully faced peplum-style hem. Both views have a centre back neck opening and three collar options are provided, including a Peter Pan Collar, fully faced Round Neck, or a Tie Back Collar. Your Ivy Dress + Top can be made sleeveless, with a short sleeve (using the indication lines provided), or with a full-length sleeve gathered at the wrist. If you choose to make the full-length gathered sleeve, you have the option of a button tab cuff or a tie cuff!

This downloadable PDF pattern is supplied as an A4/US letter print-at-home version and an A0 copyshop version with an instruction booklet included.

Liberty Tana Lawn Cottons are perfect for Ivy! Check out versions from Kim (above left) from our Wellington store and Leah from our Sydney team.

How cute are the cuffs of this Ivy in a beautiful silk from Julie in our Adelaide store, and right is Ivy in Dusky Orchid Vintage Finish Linen made by Sonya from our Brisbane store!

Gràinne (above left) from our Christchurch store made up her Ivy in a beautiful silk cotton short end! Gen (above right) from our HO team made her Ivy Dress in a light denim.

Above right is a silk cotton voile Ivy Top made by Jade in our Christchurch store, and Alyssa (above right) from our Auckland team made her Ivy Dress with a hand-dyed Vintage Finish Linen!

Annabelle (above left) made her Ivy Dress in a black gingham wool gauze and Rosie (above right) Ivy Dress using our Sea Salt and Marmalade Vintage Finish Linen colours and a little custom appliqué!

Amy (above left) from our Dunedin store made her Ivy Dress in a dreamy wool gauze! Zosia (above right) from our Online team used the combination of the Make by TFS Bloom shirt + Ivy Dress patterns to create her button-down dress with the bloom shirt collar, sewn in an Italian gauze linen complete with lining!

(Above left) Ella from our Christchurch store used popular Bone Gingham Linen to make her Ivy Dress and Carly (above right) from our Brisbane store combined our Bold Gingham, regular-sized gingham, and our Bone Vintage Finish Linens!

Fiona (above left) and Alice from our Auckland store both made sleeveless versions of Ivy, perfect for that layered look! Fiona shortened the gathered skirt pieces to make her black top and Alice made hers full length.

Ruby (bottom left) from our Christchurch store made the Ivy Top in Celery Gingham Linen and Jess (below right) from our Sydney store made her Ivy Dress using a drapey silk georgette!

We hope you've been inspired by these beautiful staff makes! The Ivy Dress + Top pattern is recommended for Intermediate level sewists and if you are keen to give it a go, our sew-along blog posts are now live! Follow us as we work through the steps to create all versions of the Ivy Dress or Top here!

We'd love to see your Ivy creations! Share yours with us on Instagram by using #TFSIvyDress or #TFSIvyTop and #MakebyTFS