I'm only a week late posting this~

For my blue and copper dress I need a short bustle, one that won't poke out below the planned knee length skirt. I was all set to start one from scratch when I remembered I had one I started a few years ago. I was working with this Ageless Patterns bustle pattern, but of course like most of their stuff, the directions are nonexistent, and when I couldn't make it work right, I gave up and into the unfinished pile it went. (Looking back now I think part of the problem was using hoop steel instead of springs, so it wouldn't curve like it was supposed to, but that's not the point.)

Anyway, I pulled it out in it's unfinished state, which looked like this.


As you can see, it's basically a series of vertical bones.

( What I did to it was to add two horizontal bones, and here's what it looks like now. )