Make a Garment a Month Challenge - January's Skirt

Finally my dressings are off my face( I had a couple of troublesome moles removed, all okay) and I can take photos again. I had fun doing the pose above - I don't wear tank tops except for showing clothes on blogs, and I don't have attitude. Not that sort anyway:) This skirt is made from stretch cotton sateen, which I purchased from Spotlight. The skirt is a slim fitting, elastic waist skirt so it is really quick and simple to make. I used Kwik Sew 3765: I made a middle length skirt - not quite as long as skirt B above, and not quite as short as skirt C. The first thing I did was check and measure the pattern pieces. I planned to use XS. I measured the hips which were to fit 35inces. You would expect that the waist would also need to be 35 inches if it was to go over the hips. It wasn't. It was a lot smaller than that. The other problem was that this skirt does not have a cut on band - you fold the waist over for casing (see picture below). As y