On the Needles: Mediterranean Lace part 2

The above photo is what my Mediterranean Lace shawl looks like after I picked up the stitches around its perimeter for the border. I never realized how painful a process that would be, but now, 1,108 stitches later, I've got the foundation for my border. I had all the math worked out so I'd make the body of the shawl the right size; the original pattern called for 2 stitches picked up for every 3 pattern rows, so in order to keep that ratio, I ended up making the shawl 22 repetitions + 20 extra rows.... for a total of 89,676 stitches. And when it came right down to it, I didn't do a particularly great job of keeping with the 2 out of 3 ratio, but I think it ended up OK (tip for anyone else doing this pattern: once you've gotten one side done, put locking stitch markers on the other side to make the picking-up process a little easier). With 26 repetitions of the border pattern, I'm using just about every stitch marker I own. Oh, and I dropped down to size 1 needles for the border (was using size 2 for the body); the pattern called for a size 0, but all the reports I'd read from other people's shawls indicated that going down two needle sizes could be problematic.

Here's what it looked like all stretched out on my red striped rug, just before I started picking up stitches for the border. Unblocked, it measured about 58" long. I was worried that it might be too short (which is why I did so many repetitions of the body pattern), but now that I see it all stretched out, I realize that it'll be just fine.