bustle

does anyone have any idea where I could get a pattern to make a bustle type skirt thing like this:







I'm not very good at making things up as I go along, they always go horribley wrong and I waste alot of material..so any help would be greatly appreciated!

**waits for lisbeth to come**

Maybe gather each of the tiers like really tightly and underneath each one add a few layers of tulle that's a few inches shorter than the fabric so it won't show?

Then it would be like each layer having its own petticoat so it'll stay puffy and not "droop".

I thought I'd seen on in a pattern in Walmart (Simplicity or McCalls) but couldn't find it online.

THAT IS FLIPPING SEXY! :O
I'm so sorry that this doesn't really help, but fuck I just had to say it!

If you really want a pattern, the only one I was able to find was a Laughing Moon one. http://www.lafnmoon.com/saloon_girl.htm

Other than that, Jenna was right: however many layers you want, each layer longer than the last, and gather them up to make them ruffly. If you didn't want to add the tulle underneath each layer(because it's a pain to work with sometimes), you could cut the layers long enough to go all the way around, and gather them up looser in the center, tighter as you go out, and that should give you some poof.

Muffins Goes RAWR wrote:

**waits for lisbeth to come**

Maybe gather each of the tiers like really tightly and underneath each one add a few layers of tulle that's a few inches shorter than the fabric so it won't show?

Then it would be like each layer having its own petticoat so it'll stay puffy and not "droop".

That's what I was basically thinking. And the shape of each piece is sorta like a semi circle but thinner.

Thank you so much!
I shall give it a go!
Wasn't sure whether to bother with tulle or not..I shall see how poofy it looks without.
Gonna go look for sexy stripey material tomorrow.

yumm. post pictures when you're done!!
I love stripes.