Here is my bustle.
I got the idea to use a pattern like this (actually I was looking at a different book! I took mine from Corsets and Crinolines p 96.) from Jen Thompson from A Festive Attyre. She mentioned how the bustle seemed small, so she made it larger. So I decided to scale it up, plus add another 1/3 onto all the measurements. I also am going to use this with a Steampunk outfit, so I wanted to make it short, because my skirt is likely to be around knee length. After I made the pattern full sized from the small scale, I had to adjust the boning channels that crossed at the top. But it worked out rather well. I added the ruffles so that I wouldn’t have boning showing through the skirt, plus to give it a little extra fullness.
Here is the graph paper diagram I drew up in miniature scale (I realized later that I needed to change the way the bones crossed on the top section, and I fixed them on the actual pattern). And full sized pattern pieces in jpg format.
