Your work is stunning and for me quite inspiring. Nice you shared your experience of not using batting for the light weight quilt and feeling your quilting efforts were wasted. There is something to be said for wanting that hard work to shine a bit, and without batting, it would tend to fall a bit flat. We learn best from things that don't go as we had envisioned them! That said, your finished quilts both look lovely. Your work still turned out great!