To me the reverse side looks better if you alternate slipped and knit stitch columns between one row and the next, and the right side looks just as good either way. Very easy project and this yarn does some cool and interesting color changes. My one issue is that you can tell on the finished cowl where the beginning/end of the rounds go -- there’s a jog that looks like a seam or a bad splice. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, whether I should always slip the first stitch of a new round the way you would to prevent stripes jogging, or if there’s some other way to avoid a visible join.