Augusta back and buttons

The august August Augusta continues. I started the back last night with a major mod. The original back is plain stockinette, but I'm cabling mine. After spending months reknitting the Handstrikket with nothing but boring brown stockinette, I have a moral obligation to rescue myself from abject tedium. Plus the cables will give me additional vertical lines that will hopefully be becoming. Note I'm not saying slimming because I'm just not that optimistic of a human being. :-)

I've been on a constant quest for green buttons. It's tough out there. If you want white, gold, black, or silver buttons,  you're good to go. But green? Not so much. If I don't find anything better, I'm going to use these neat sea glass buttons I found from Swept from the Seas Design on Etsy. I wish they were a little bigger, but they'll work.

Should I tell you again how excited I am about this sweater? It's the first time I've taken a commercial pattern and rewrote it using all of my own measurements rather than just the bust and hip size. I'm anxious to see how much better a fit I will get. I'm shocked by the sleeves, for example. You may remember that the Handstirkket had tremendously wide sleeves. The Augusta's sleeves seem svelte in comparison. I was really worried they wouldn't fit, but they're perfect. Now if I can just get a cardigan body to sew them on to.

I will blog about the strategy and approach I'm using to re-create this sweater in the next day or two. Suffice to say I'm a walking Einstein executing a big sweater experiment. We'll see if I can prove out my hypothesis with the august August Augusta.