Washing fabrics
I have a couple of fabrics in the wash to pre-shrink them, notably a quilting print and white cotton drill (for my Margaery bodice). The quilting print is for a bustle pad for the HSF Paisley and Plaid Challenge. It is brown and multicoloured with wide stripes that have a floral stripe running in them and little paisleys in the skinny stripes. I'm making an 1880s bustle pad based on this one in the Victoria and Albert museum. Except, instead of a silk cord holding down the little bustle pad, I'm going to do some stitches on the underside of it tacking it to the larger bustle pad. I think it's cute and it must be way easier than making a bustle with boning and such.
