stole update: after fighting a couple of times with knitting the edging on a la the pattern, i have relented and decided to do it separately, and then graft it on. so. i figure i can do a strip of it 80 repeats long (omfg) and then attach it as i remove the body from the needles. but the corners are stumping me. what are they going to look like? mmm. we shall see.