A Modern Christmas

Over the last year or so I have submitted different quilts to several different magazines with no takers.  Then earlier this year I finally had one accepted and was so excited.  I was lucky enough to get some beautiful fabric from Cotton + Steel to use, got the top done.  Then sent it off to be quilted by the amazingly talented Teresa Silva from Quilting is my Bliss because it just needed her special touch.  Just as I got the quilt back and I was finishing the binding I got a notice that the magazine was ending publication effective immediately. SIGH***  Not gonna lie, I spent a couple of weeks all bummed out and maybe pouted a time or two. HAHA  I was then left with a decision of what to do with the quilt - do I submit it to another magazine or release it myself?  After a lot of back and forth I decided that I loved this quilt so much that I wanted to show it right now.  So I am offering for a limited time the pattern as a PDF download only and its on sale to boot!!

There is a however funny story to how the design came about because this was NOT the original idea ... I was in the process of taking photos and scans of the original drawings and for whatever reason when I did the scan it inverted the pattern 90 degrees.   And as I looked at it, I went humm I think I see my new Christmas tree quilt, thus A Modern Christmas was born.  It was a sign as Christmas is my absolute favorite holiday and its never too early to have a Christmas quilt laying around right??

So for a limited time A Modern Christmas (currently only available as a PDF) is just $5!!

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Just me..

We are gonna give this blogging thing a chance.  So I figure my first post should be about me.

I am a loving wife to my husband of 26 years, a sometimes crazed mom to three pretty amazing children (and one son in law as of March) and I am pattern designer.

I spent the majority of my life moving around the country but we eventually settled in Southern Indiana and it was there in High school I met my future husband.  A couple of years after graduating we got married and embarked on a 22 year journey traveling the world with my husband joining the Navy.  From Hawaii to Japan to Canada and several spots in-between.

Crafting/sewing and sew much more is pretty big in my family.  I was taught different types of crafts from my mother, father, grandmother, aunts and cousins starting at an early age.  I credit all their influences and all the moving around the world living in different cultures for expanding my creativity and influencing my modern, artistic, and bold style of design.

Once my husband retired from the Navy and my children began spreading their own wings, I decided to share my passion for quilting and unique design with others.  Thus - Sweet Tea Pattern Co. was born!  I am so very blessed and fortunate that with support from my husband and my children I get to spend my days in the studio doing what I love - creating, designing, sewing and quilting.