Burda WOF Plus Autumn-2008(E972) Skirt 420

I have decided to start posting my adventures with BWOF. Lately i have had two duds from 04/2009 BWOF Dress #129. They were very easy to sew but.....did not fit :( . So i decided to try something simple, a skirt. I recently purchased the BWOF Plus fall 2008 edition form Ebay and had been admiring skirt #404, while browsing the sewing instructions i came accross skirt #420 a simple pencil skirt with slits in the back...KEWL!!!!! Here are the results.

I made the following modifications. The skirt pattern size is to a EU50 i graded up to a 54 and then added 1" seam allowances all around. This resulted in the skirt being W A A Y Y To Big. So i took off 1.5" on each side of the front 1/2 on each side of the back panels. basically i could have elimiated the 1" seam allowance and stitched the size 50 using the graded 54 as the seam allowance....Sigh.... oh well. The next change is that i did not put in the facings, i am still a novice although i have been attempting to sew for at least 20 years :D. i do not get a long with facings something always goes terribly wrong and my project becomes a UFO. So when it came time to do the facings i just eliminated them and followed the instructions for the lining. This skirt stiches up really fast from trace to cutting to sewing all of about 3 hours. The photo attached still does not have the hem and slit facings completed i will do that later this weekend.