Parade Day

 I took Dylan to the 4th of July parade. 

We found a good spot next to Christie and Tony and Layton. 

I think it might have been the first time collecting candy for Dilly. 

He got quite a haul thanks to a little help from Layton! 

He brought home the bag of candy to show Grampa.

And before the parade we went to the Firecracker 4th Antique Show over in Amana. 

Dilly spotted a bike-He's pretty excited with bikes lately.

We had a good time. It was a good 4th of July-hot but a little breeze. 

I bought a few vintage ornaments. Plastic.

Just About Caught Up

 I've been a really neglegent blogger lately, but I'm almost caught up now. Here's the latest quilt finish.

A very dear friend had a baby boy recently. Baby's Dad has been friends with our Son since they were little guys. 

Anyways, they named the boy Layton. So I thought I'd work that into the alphabet panel I have on hand. I just winged it on the letters. 

I just needed to make it big enough to fill out the skinny alphabet panel.

I love this alphabet panel, but it is too narrow to make a good size baby quilt.

Adding layton to the side makes it good sized!

I shopped for some fluffy minky for the backing-kids love the fuzzy stuff.

I found this orange Shannon Cuddle up at Inspired to Sew in Cedar Rpaids IA. It's a really good match.

I got some of this cute Kaffe Fasse stripe to use for the binding. I had to cut length wise binding instead of crosswise. 

And here's the finish. I sure do need to figure out what the deal is with my phone's camera.

It squishes the pictures up-I need to look at that.

Love that sloth! That backing is luscious!

And just a big meander-I don't like to make too much stitching on the fuzzy back quilts, it seems like they are fluffier with a little less quilting.

My favorites P for python, and X for xerus, which is an African ground squirrel. Educational, right!?