Quaintly contemporary

You would have thought that after spending TWO whole weeks in New York City this past June, I would have had plenty of architectural inspiration
.... and you are right!

But that did not make this challenge any easier!!!!

I hemmed and hawed for weeks until I just started sewing....

Inspired by all the contemporary (modern), glass buildings.....

 I began sewing with black Kona cotton and pewter silk dupioni (my first time using the dupioni)....

but when my building was pieced (and I did not take a photo of it! ACK), 

I wasn't sure what to do next.... it looked too simple! 

So I went back to all my photos (I took 401!) of  NYC 

...okay, all my photos of the buildings of NYC (surely there were only about 100!)

and I kept coming back to this wonderful quaint (charmingly old-fashioned) building
that I spotted in Soho while waiting for PurlSoho to open
(note to other shoppers: they don't open until NOON!)....

 The details and the texture make me swoon!

It gave me an idea.... 

so I posterized the photo onto tracing paper so it would be thin to sew on (yes, sew on!)

and then temporarily adhered it to a similarly sized piece of Golden Thread tracing paper and sewed some of the details of the building onto the golden paper...

et voila!!!

What next, you ask?! 

  I ran out and bought a pounce pad and some pounce (white) powder
and pounced the design onto the back of the quilt...

which then looked like this... (or as we say in France, comme ca!)

I then quilted from the back using a gray variegated thread in the bobbin and 

so 

we

have...

a little simple

a little subtle

it's

quaintly contemporary!!

(I have discovered that it is very difficult to snap a good photograph of a square quilt!)

with a close up....

old and new!