Knitting For Olive | Olive Top Pattern & Yarn Pack
Sun-Kissed Style with Elegant Simplicity
The Olive Top is your go-to summer knit—light, feminine, and endlessly wearable. With its delicate straps, flattering deep V neckline (front and back), and eye-catching textured stitch pattern, this camisole is perfect worn on its own in the heat or layered under cosy knits as the seasons shift.
The top is knitted from the top down, beginning with the front and back triangles shaped back and forth. These are then joined, and the body is worked seamlessly in the round down to the hem. A final flourish—the scalloped edge—is formed by folding and sewing the hem to the wrong side. The shoulder straps are worked from live stitches and finished with a neat graft at the shoulders, creating a clean, polished look.
Designed to be hip-length and close-fitting, the Olive Top is available in inclusive sizing and can be made in your choice of Knitting for Olive's lightweight yarns, making it a true wardrobe staple for warm weather and beyond.
Our Olive Top Pattern & Yarn Pack includes 3 balls of Knitting For Olive Cotton Merino yarn and a digital pattern.
This yarn pack is for the XS size. Purchase more Cotton Merino Yarn if you are following a bigger pattern size. Please refer to the chart below.
| Pattern Size | Yarn | Yarn Quantity |
| XS | Cotton Merino | 3 |
| S | Cotton Merino | 3 |
| M | Cotton Merino | 3 |
| L | Cotton Merino | 4 |
| XL | Cotton Merino | 4 |
| 2XL | Cotton Merino | 5 |
| 3XL | Cotton Merino | 6 |
| 4XL | Cotton Merino | 7 |
- 3 x Cotton Merino Yarn
- Digital Pattern
This yarn pack is for the XS size. Purchase more Cotton Merino Yarn if you are following a bigger pattern size.
Olive Top stitch patterns are charted only.
- Sizes: XS (S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL)
- Finished measurements: Length from shoulder to hem: 46 (50, 55, 59, 61, 64, 67, 69) cm [18 (19¾, 21¾, 23¼, 24, 25, 26½, 27¼)]"; length from armhole to hem: 24 (27, 30, 33, 33, 35, 35, 35) cm [9½ (10¾, 11¾, 13, 13, 13¾, 13¾, 13¾)]"; bust circumference: 71 (77, 85, 92, 99, 115, 124, 132) cm [28 (30¼, 33½, 36¼, 39, 45¼, 48¾, 52)]" with an intended negative ease of approx. 4-14 cm [1½-5½]"
Yarn: Knitting for Olive Pure Silk or Cotton Merino or Merino (250 m [273 yd] per 50 gr [1.8 oz]), fingering weight yarn; fingering weight yarn, 3 (3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7) balls - Needles: 3 mm / US2.5 circular needle and 2 double-pointed needles
- Gauge: 34 sts and 39 rows = 10 cm [4"] in Olive Top pattern [Chart C (C, C, C, C, CC, CC)] with 3 mm / US2.5 needles after blocking
- Notions: stitch markers, waste yarn or stitch holders, 4 lengths of waste yarn for Provisional Cast On method, optional: 2 safety pins to place strap stitches on hold, tapestry needle
* Negative ease means, that the end result may be smaller than actual body measurements, due to the elasticity of the design.
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