Added a couple more rows on the border of the Kilimanjaro Kat shawl last night. I'm beginning to get excited about this project again.

Two of the "nearly-done" projects I have - the Kat shawl and the Prairie Stripes afghan - have mitered edges on the border. Both do it differently. With the Kat shawl, which is lace, you knit all around the whole thing, and for the mitering, you do a yarn over on either side of the corner every other row. On the afghan, you do each border separately, and increase one stitch at the end of every other row, then sew the borders together.

If I had done the Kat shawl first (and if I had a mondo-longo-10 1/2 circular needle) I would have chosen to do the borders on the afghan all of a piece, rather than having FOUR instances of picking up stitches and FOUR instances of binding off stitches, and then having to match up and sew the short edges.

And just to throw another miter into this: I can never get the miters on quilt borders to come out in a way I like. Either they're off a bit, or they bulge a little, or I eliminate mitering all together and just do long-strips-that-abut instead. (I wish it were as easy to miter corners on a quilt as it is on the Kat shawl).