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Free Sewing Pattern: Mendocino Sundress from Heather Ross

April 7, 2009 by Anne Weaver

mendocinosundress
Heather Ross offers a free pattern for the Mendocino Sundress.  This is such a flattering dress!  The top is sewn with elastic thread, and the skirt is full and includes on-seam pockets.  Get the free pattern.

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Comments

  1. Thacia says

    April 30, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    I cant find cute free sundress patterns anywhere!!! its driving me crazy!

  2. Victoria says

    June 18, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Thacia is right. Sundress patterns are so hart to find.

  3. teresa says

    August 5, 2009 at 10:08 am

    i want to make my dress for homecomming and i want a simple sundress pattern. im not finding one anywhere!

  4. Nichole says

    March 29, 2010 at 5:31 am

    This is a very cute dress the free sun dress mendocino from heather ross but the site is not giving me the pattren its so sad I realy liked it expecialy the pockets 🙂

    • anneweaver says

      March 29, 2010 at 6:16 am

      Nichole, It looks like they changed the URL of the pattern. I’ve updated the link with what looks to be the correct new address. Try it again and see if it works now. –Anne

  5. Dixie Saunders says

    July 2, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    I am on my second sundress made from your teriffic elastic top pattern I downloaded. It turned out so cute for my grandaughter, her mom wanted one as well! Easy to make, but time consuming doing the elastic rows. Finished dress was worth it though!!! Thanks, and would be interested in seeing any other patterns you have in inventory.

  6. Heidi says

    August 3, 2010 at 9:52 am

    I would like to make this dress, even willing to send it to kinkos to have it printed. when I try on my computer it comes up on one 8 x 10 sheet of paper, how do I get it to be printed at kinkos? I have clicked your kinkos link and it just takes me to there web site with no info about this pattern

    • anneweaver says

      August 3, 2010 at 1:16 pm

      Heidi, I’m not sure what’s going on with Kinko’s site. You’d need to contact them about their content. As for the pattern, it’s a PDF file. Sometimes they print funny if the scaling is off. Check the scaling in your Print dialog box before you print it. Try turning the scaling off and see if that helps.

      • anneweaver says

        August 3, 2010 at 1:17 pm

        I realized that my last two sentences may be unclear. What you need to do is double-check to be sure that your scaling is OFF before printing. You can do that on the Print Settings dialog box.

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