There’s one thing that bothers me about this pattern, although I haven’t read anything about it (and I searched high and low in notes and forum posts). At the center of the border you pick up two stitches from one yo a few times. My common sense tells me that it should be the opposite. When you knit a border onto a finished shawl you pick up more stitches at the corners in order for the border to curve around the edge. So I would think that when you pick up stitches from an edge, you would pick less stitches from what will be the corner, and not more. And truly enough, picking more stitches created a nasty bump that wasn’t too easy to submit into shape when blocking. I looked at other projects, and it does look like the border is stretched over the corner more than it should be in most of them!
If (when?) I knit this again, I would either repeat the border a few more times and pick one stitch per eyelet on the entire length to have the correct stitch count, or even skip a few eyelets in the center like my common sense tells me it should be.

Update on the bump issue - after wearing the shawl a few times and after the blocking relaxed a bit, the bump is now very visible.

I loved that pattern since the first time I laid eyes on it. I got the pattern in a RAK and went to work immediately. And no, I don’t mind being on the bandwagon this time.
So far so good.

The border took forever. All the rows in the chart look the same to me. It’s impossible to memorize them so I had to use the chart all the way to the 71st repeat. Finally, after almost four months, I finished the border. It’s not that I’m a slow knitter, I just put this thing in the hibernation basket too many times and for too long. I’m finally done with it, and I hope the rest will be a quick, enjoyable, mindless knit. The complete project must be worth the suffering, it’s so beautiful.

Done! It’s so light and airy! The whole shawl weighs 35 grams, and the cone looks after finishing exactly as it did before I started. I don’t tend to knit the same pattern twice, but something tells me that I’ll make an exception with this shawl.