Look ma, I'm doing it continental style! The continental knitting class I took last night was very good. After a couple of hours, I actually felt like I was getting the hang of using my left hand. And I can see how it can be a much faster method. Since you're knitting from right to left, when you hold the yarn on the left it's just sitting there waiting to be picked up and knit in. It's so much more efficient than dropping the needles and swooping the yarn around. I'm not saying that I can do it, but I can see why it would be faster, theoretically. I have to try it a lot more to see if it is practically speaking any better for me. We made little sampler swatches in the class, trying out knit, purl, seed and rib stitch. Here's my silly little swatch (looks like knitting, right?). I want to get in some real practice though before my next class next week (two-handed two-color knitting), so I've decided to put all my other projects aside for the moment and start another one, done just with the continental method. Good excuse, don'tcha think?!