Pictures, at long last! And a question

OK, so...I've been teasing ya'll about my finished shawl. I finally got a couple of pictures of the (crappily) blocked shawl (J. helped. He has no clue how to block knitting. I will re-block it later, before the fair):

( Cut to spare my friends' pages. Do the clicky-thingy )

( Now for the question )

Thanks for looking!