A Table Runner of Modern Background- PAPER

Somehow, 
In spite of feeling overwhelmed by all of the medias shared images & memories of nightmares past that will never be forgotten... today has been a productive quilting day.

For 14 years now, September 11 has become a day of remembrance... 
and between televised memorials & phone calls shared with loved ones... I have quilted. 

As a New Yorker... we all lost someone we knew.
It was devastating, terrifying, angering... 
I could go on and on. 

But I would rather share some quilting.

My local quilt shop: A NIMBLE THIMBLE

had a charm pack of

Modern Background- PAPER 

by Brigitte Heiland for ZEN CHIC

for moda

I just love it!

I am making a table runner...
Nothing too complicated.
Honestly... I haven't the attention span today.
I am just sort of making it up as I go...

I decided to create rows 

to include the precuts scattered "haphazardly"

I ended up creating 4 rows

I kept trying to decide on row placement 

and shifting them about on my design wall

(Some of the squares were too close to others-since I had not bothered to preplan or measure...)

Eventually, I decided to add in a strip between each row...

I pieced the back... put it all back up on the design wall, 

and realized I didn't like it... too wide :(

So... I removed one row...

yes... 

3 was right I decided...

I used an adhesive basting spray to attach the piecing 

to a scrap of batting I had laying around. 

I have no idea what type it is... or when it is from...

Using my walking foot, I started out quilting in straight lines

Table runners back

As I neared the sides I decided to use slight waves

 to add some motion

Ironically... I ran out of fabric before I could make a binding. 
(If I had not made cuts for the fourth row... I would have had enough...)
Hopefully my local fabric shop will have some more...