Jolene Misses Top & Dress

Great but with some caveats

I found this dress pattern very easy to follow and make. The end result was really cute. I chose to go with the backless option, flutter sleeve, and circle skirt. Construction was fairly decent however I ran into an issue with the waistband, not having side seam for when I sewed up the edges of the bodice and had to take it all apart and stretch it out to make sure I had a little bit more, so I didn’t sew up the ties up at back. You can see this in the photos of the directions, but it doesn’t actually call it out . I also think it would be great if there were more notches and matching dots in this pattern, especially for the center portions of waistband, skirt, sleeves piece that you have to match up at a later date when everything is gathered. I also cut my circle skirt on the bias and the hem was really wonky and took me a little bit to fix it, but not a result of this pattern.