I finished the back of the crazy continental. Boy is this thing ready to be blocked! I can't even get it to lie flat for one little picture.

So, how do I like it, you ask? Well, I think that the crazy stripes are just the right thing to draw attention away from my uneven knitting. I seem to have reached a little learning plateau with the left hand. My tension problems haven't gone away, but I'm still practicing and that is the point of the sweater and, as I was just saying, the crazy stripes. Otherwise, the thing is still too long. I took out some rows before the shoulder shaping, but I need to shorten even it more. I couldn't go back any further at the shoulder because there is waist shaping and that would move the waist up to my bustline. Not optimal! So, I'll most likely cut the last 5 cm off at the bottom and reknit the small bit of ribbing back down from there. I've done this before (with my new year's stripey sweater) and it was pretty easy and relatively unproblematic - certainly when compared with everything I've had to do with elizabeth III.

That's the long way of saying, I'm liking the crazy continental so far.