Return of the owls

I am having a hard time moving ahead with this years Rainbow Scrappy Challenge. I think part of the problem is that I never finished the ones from last year. I did get the blocks sewn together but for several I was stumped about what to do with the border.

In the owl quilt, the owls are perching on magically floating sticks. So for the border I am adding more magical sticks. I am hoping for a negative space square to form at the intersection of the sticks in the border.

Here is a close up. Next, I will add another strip of the white background.

And here is a picture of Frick and Frack being let back in the sewing room. Molly considers borders her specialty because it usually involves the design wall, pins and a quilt top. At one point, she was under the quilt top attacking my fingers as I was trying to pin the border to the quilt top. I prefer constructive criticism to cat claw criticism. So the critic and her shadow were evicted.