With the Fant'sy thing done and out of the way, I was glad to have a day or two to take off and meanwhile clean up my desktop. Since I do everything from the first concept design sketches to the pattern drafting to the pattern digitizing to the dressmaking to the photography to the guidebook layout and file creation, to the copy writing and whatever comes after or in between, my digital desktop was looking a bit cluttered from the last month or so's intense journey!

So while I was reorganizing folders, I had a chance for a better look at the series I took of my Tonner My Imagination doll (who doesn't have a name yet) wearing the Fant'sy Frock black and purply version, and realized she really looked beautiful in it! I couldn't get the witch hat over her huge head of curls (I did try) but I think she ended up looking fine without it. With the curly do, the dress almost gave her a dreamy romantic carnival look--all she needed was a little half mask! There's an idea for another pattern, I called it!

My Imagination Curly Sue is such a gorgeous doll, I would have loved to have added more pictures of her in this dress to the pattern guidebook. But I was trying to get the pattern out asap before Halloween, so I didn't get to dwell on any one picture much to think about what to do with it. So I'm just now really appreciating this set of photos.