It's Possum Magic time again

I've had Carla's (Granny Maud's Girl) Possum Magic quilt sitting here for a few weeks now, and I decided to work on it on Sunday.

The next deadline isn't until January 19, but that's prime summer holiday time in New Zealand, so thought I better work on it now.

This is what I did with it:

The photo below shows what it looked like when I received it from Alice (Blossom Quilts). Alice had added a lovely meandering vine around Rebecca's flowers.

I knew before I even received it what I was going to do for my border. I'd seen an idea in Gwen Marston's Liberated Medallion Quilts book that I wanted to try, and I had the perfect fabric on hand.

My plan was to fussy cut the flowers in the beautiful floral fabric, and frame them with the bright fabrics you can see in the photo above. The feature fabric is from the Art Gallery Dreaming in French collection - Light Femme Fatale.

I started early on Sunday morning, but quickly decided that I needed to add some blue to my border to pick up on the blue that Rebecca (One Wee Bird) had used in her border. Can you believe she paper pieced all those flowers and ladybirds?

Fortunately I had some teal on hand that worked in well. I didn't want Carla to think that I had used too much pink and mauve, so I toned it down with the teal. I think it worked well.

Following Gwen Marston's lead, I didn't fuss too much about the corners. I didn't make four corner blocks, but instead cut down two of the normal blocks to finish the rows nicely. You can see one in the front left hand corner in the photo below. the other is in the top right corner. They blend in well and are hardly noticeable at all.

Carla's quilt now measures 60" x 60"

It was all finished before 5pm on Sunday afternoon and I'm happy with how it turned out. My border still has a fair bit of green in it, and continues the garden theme with the flowers. It's pleasing to know that I can turn something I pictured in my mind into reality (well quilt wise anyway).

Carla's quilt is now 58" x 58" square.

You can see all of our Possum Magic quilts on the tab just under my blog header.  We are a group of 8 bloggers from New Zealand and Australia who met online in June 2014. We organised our own local round robin and each made a centre block. Those blocks are all travelling around in a circle, and we will each get our own back in mid 2015 with 7 borders added to it. Besides getting a quilt back at the end, we've made some great quilting friends.