Louisa Tunic from French Girl Knits

So I feel a bit like I'm cheating with this post since I've already blogged about this sweater, but oh well.  Here's what happened.  I wore my Louisa Top from the book French Girl Knits (pattern is for a tunic, but mine is top-length) to church today and fell back in love with it.

        I finished it nearly three years ago but have only worn it a few times because...

1. It's an odd combination of warm and cold.  The wool yarn (Tosh dk oooooh) and the short sleeves mean the weather has to be just right to be comfortable.

2. The sleeves are a little snug.  Luckily, they do stay put over my bra straps, though.

3.  The top is on the short side to wear with pants.  It's certainly not cropped, but current styles are definitely for a longer sweater with jeans and pants.

Enter the skirt.  I love this skirt.  It's ready-to-wear, and I would love to copy it in some more colors.  It's a great hybrid of all the things I love about A-line skirts and full gored skirts.  I've had it for a few years and wear it often.  Plus, I've decided that this top is the perfect length to wear with a skirt.

So anyway, I wore this to church and was so happy with the outfit.  Then I became convinced I had never put this up on Ravelry.  I remembered the original blog post, but decided to take pictures for Ravelry.  Yeah, I just went to make a project page, and there was already an entry.  Oops.  I just added the new photos and there you go.

 So yeah, this isn't new, but new pictures!  Does that count for anything?  Getting ready for Me-Made-May and all?

If I'm cheating by re-blogging a project, I took the difficult route.

 Also, I'm really enjoying A Little Sewing's series about sewing blogging, and she suggested in comments that I use larger photos.  I guess it just never occurred to me, but that's easy to change.  How's are these? :-)

Have a great week everybody!