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1760-1780 Line Drawings scrooppatterns.com

Call for Pattern Testers for Stays suitable for 1760-80

UPDATE: Thank you to all who applied! Applications to test the pattern are now closed. Amber of Virgil’s Fine Goods and I are adding to the Scroop + Virgil’s Fine Goods Pattern offerings, and have another exciting 18th century pattern almost finished! We’re looking for testers to help us check the final fit and instruction details. 💛 If you’d like to be one of them, keep reading to learn more, and how to apply! This testing round will run Sat 11 Nov-Wed 3 Jan, with a check in midway. We know that’s a very busy time of year for some people, but a very slow time for others (Leimomi waves hi!). Please consider how busy this time of year is for you before you apply: there will be other patterns to test, and we’d hate for this to be another stressor at what is already a stressful time for some! The Pattern: Our Augusta Stays pattern has been wildly popular, and we get requests for another stays pattern all the time. The things most …

What it’s like to have a hollow needle biopsy (and other breast health stuff)

Published by The Dreamstress

My friends check in to see how it went. I recount the gory details of the breast biopsy and we have a conversation about bent needles. We invent the phrase ‘boobs of steel’ and decide that’s why female superheroes can wear such skimpy costumes

Making Roach’s 40 Orange Glaze Cake

Published by The Dreamstress

OK, unless you have an orange juicer and some fancy zesting machine, be prepared to spend a LOT of time zesting and juicing oranges for a 40 Orange Glaze Cake. As the sous-chef, I was on a team juice-and-zest. While Nina got candied oranges started, and made the cake, I sliced and juiced and zested as fast as I could to keep up.