The back is only about an inch from being done, then the sleeves & fronts remain. It's knit in a combination of Alice Starmore and Rowan 2ply shetland yarns on size 2 needles.
The shape of the sweater is a design out of Kim Hargreaves's book for Rowan: A Season's Tale. It will be a fitted cardigan.
The bottom half of the fairisle pattern is from a chart in a kids' knitting pattern book I checked out at the library. The stripes and checks above the diamonds are my own little pattern. The sleeves & front will have the same pattern, (the sleeves will have more repeats of the stripey part.) There is a heather blue seed stitch placket and a small pointy collar in heather blue seed stitch with a strand of dark blue running through, like the bottom hem & sleeve cuffs will have.