Cap & Gown update!

I’ve spent every available minute working on this pattern, and my goal is still to get it off my desk before 2025 becomes 2026! I’d like to start the new year with a new project, but rest assured, I won’t be releasing this pattern until it is just right. If it has to leak over to early January, so be it.

Honestly, it’s more like four patterns with one million* different options built in, which is why it is taking forever to write and illustrate. The pattern includes elementary girl, elementary boy, high school female, and high school male graduate versions and several options for honors, skin tones, and hairstyles. I’m especially excited that I have solved the problem of how to add glasses in a way that will not make you hate me. Yesssss!
*Not the actual number of options but feels correct

The final samples are done, and I’m finishing up the instructions/illustrations. Then comes shooting the photos and proofing and editing. I’ll jump back on it after I enjoy a couple of days off for Christmas! Hey, do you notice the bespectacled boy above with the floppy brown hair resembles a certain young wizard of literary fame? I think this pattern could be easily repurposed to create some Harrys and Rons and Hermiones with the addition of a few accessories, like a scarf and wand?

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