Follow up to the race car mat/blanket

As I posted last week I found a wonderful idea on Pinterest about a DIY race car track. I had the opportunity over the last couple of days to actually make this. It wasn't as simple as I was hoping (I am good a DIY projects, but sewing is a whole different story), but either way my son already loves it.
1. I found a simple green background
2. I used iron on paper to adhere the tracks as well as the different backgrounds to the green fabric.
     (for the background I cheated a bit and used a John Deer fabric that had a country setting)
3. Once everything was ironed on I used yellow ribbon 1 inch in length spaced 1/2 an inch to create the lines in the streets.
4. When everything was set in its place I stitched everything on using a sewing machine. The stitched don't have to be even because the design isn't.
5. When everything was sewn in place I added the backing. For this I used fleece with a fun space scene

    (since my son is really into space right now, but you could use race cars or even a plain fabric)
6. I sewed the materials opposite sides together sewing 3 sides completely and leaving approximately 8inches open on the 4th side so you could reverse the materials back to the correct side.
7. When the material was back on the correct side I simply just stitched the open part
    (I am sure there is a name for this stitch, but again not really good a sewing)
8. Finally to complete this mat/blanket I stitched around each rectangle so that the fleece would remain in place.

It didn't take long for my son to find one of his race cars to use on his new race car mat/blanket!