Possum Magic - Border One

Well August has well and truly bitten me in the ass hasn't it?! We are already half way through it and this is my first post.

But have no fear my peeps I have been doin stuff and some of it has been sewing.

Possum Magic border one has been completed and sent!

http://wherejanecreates.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/possum-magic.html

This is Jane's centre block that I needed to add to, luckily I had seen it in advance and come up with an idea that I thought might go with the whole flying geese ,directional theme.

 But I did have to wait for it to arrive before I could do a proper fabric pull....then I left it until the VERY last minute, damn kids and stuff! But it came together perfectly and only had to travel to Wellington, Phew!!

Jane had used shot cottons which I do love but I know from experience the colour on screen can be deceiving to that of real life

 After ALOT of humming and harring about the background fabric I settled on my first choice...doesn't that just twist your undies!!

Another shot cotton in a gorgeous green, I couldn't decide on whether to separate the arrows from the geese with a small border, so once again went with my first option

 The pattern for the 3" ( finished ) arrows comes from here

And TaDa this is what I came up with ....... it's really saturated with colour in the flesh and I'm so glad Jane chose a dark background as it really pushed me with colour choice.

I even pulled out the old colour wheel thingy to contemplate what was going to make the deep Plum background pop and still give the others some variety to work with for accents.

Quite like it on point too...

  

Ta Dots are one of my absolute faves but the Kaffe Fassett print above, that I've had stashed for far too long, just looked great with every background I tried!

Now onto Carla's Border #2....this is all I have to show so far but I have decided to jump in and add colour to her gorgeous green leaf

 

http://grannymaudsgirl.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/turning-a-new-leaf/

  Although I was tempted to stay with the colour scheme that Jane had added

http://wherejanecreates.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/possum-magic-round-one.htmll

I cannot help myself !!! There will be colour!!! Here are the other Possums,pop on over and see what they've been up to.

  Alice of Blossom Quilts & Crafts

 Jane of Where Jane Creates
Jo of Riddle and Whimsy
Serena of Sew Giving

Sharon of Motherdragon’s Musings

Wendy of Wendy’s Quilts and More
 Linking up with the less than colourful this week Molli ( he has the Winter lurgy ) for Sunday Stash and fabricky goodness