I stayed up late last night adding more quilting to an applique wallhanging I made for my friend in Nebraska (see my earlier December post about our crafty exchange). I decided I wanted to enter it as the final quilt for my quilt show next weekend but it needed a little more quilting before I considered it “show quality”.

Here’s the “before” picture showing the echo quilting around the flowers. Where the blocks joined, there was an area of unquilted puffy space that I didn’t like.

So I decided to fill in the open areas with more echo quilting. (This picture’s not as good but you get the general idea!!)

The extra quilting made  the quilt lie flatter and blended the quilting lines so that you couldn’t see where the echo designs didn’t match up perfectly.  Now, it’s ready for the show!