Maxi skirt patterning..

Firstly I drew around the skirt block front and back. We then measured ourselves from our waist to the floor and then extended the length of our skirt to that length. To add the extra flare to our maxi skirts, we drew 2 vertical lines on the back piece from the bottom of both darts to the hem,

 for the front we repeated the process but for one dart, but to gain the toher line, we measured from the dart to the centre front and found the halfway point and drew a vertical line, we then traced the front and back off separately, and slashed up the vertical lines leaving them slightly attached still at the top, the automatically spreads out the bottom of the pattern.

This is the final pattern above with a seam allowance added. The front and back are both cut on the fold. We used a bias grain line as we wanted the skirt to flute at the hem, it also means that the skirt will fit where it touches,

Waistband;
to pattern for the waistband, we measured the waist minus the seam allowance, we added on extra for the overlap of the button hole as well,