I’ve been working on charity quilts for Quilts Beyond Borders.  QBB sends to the quilter the pieced top, backing and binding.  The quilter supplies the batting, quilts the layers and finishes off the binding. Besides providing constructive practice time, I found these charity quilts proved that quilting adds a depth and beauty to a quilt that it didn’t previously have.  This plain quilt particularly proved it  as I felt it had no unifying design, but, unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture before I had quilted it.  Sorry, I am.  This is the quilt after quilting.  I’ll have to take a better full quilt picture later.

Here is the second quilt top before quilting.

And here is the quilted top.

And the third quilt after quilting. The back…

I used a pantograph “Double Dutch” by annebright.com.  I am surprised at how much I enjoy the pantographs.  This is good news as it means I enjoy working at the back of the machine, pantographs, as much as I do at the front of the machine, free motion.  I’ll upload pictures of the completed quilts in a bit.