The One with the Quilt

And the new winner for prettiest present ever.  Mom totally spoiled me for Christmas this year!  Don't worry siblings, you'll get your turn :)  It was a fluke that I reaped the benefits of Mom's new sewing machine first.  And the quilting class.

About a week after we got home from Christmas we got a good sized box in the mail.  Of course I thought it was just something Justin ordered off eBay but my name was on it!  Yay!  Who doesn't love mail, especially packages?  I opened it up right then and cried.  Again.  For our wedding Mom found some beautiful damask fabric online and made what probably felt like 100 tablecloths.  I mentioned that it would be fun to use the scraps to make a quilt someday.  The amazing thing is I had totally forgotten I said that, but Mom didn't!  She was so sneaky and put together this beautiful bedspread.

Here are the befores:

I bought this bedspread my senior year of undergrad.  Yeah, it's getting a little old but we both like green so it has worked well so far in our marriage :)

Woops, here you can see we got a little lazy and didn't put the bed skirt back on.

I liked all the pillows that came with it...

 And the afters:

But this is so much better!!!

Look how pretty!  And detailed!!

My mom rocks!  And if you're wondering why the corner is turned out...

It says this!  How sweet :)

I love the blue and purple accents as those were our wedding flower colors.  Isn't it amazing?!!!!