Episode 30 ~ How to Make Chenille

Today we talked about how to make your own chenille.

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Log Cabin Dreams is Finished!!!!  Yeah! This is my fourth completed quilt and it took me less than a year to do it.  I owe most of this to you.  Doing his blog and podcast has kept me inspired and motivated all year.  Thanks.

I finished the border with scraps from the log cabin pieces.  I think it really ties it all in together.

Can you see the little flowers and butterflies I free-motioned into the border?

How to make Chenille

1. Use all cotton fabric and layer three pieces on top of each other.
2. Draw a line, corner to corner and every 3/8″ from there.
3. Sew a straight stitch on these lines.
4. Cut the fabric apart between the sewing lines
5. Stitch onto block
6. When the quilt is done, wash it several times
7. Use a chenille brush to brush out and fluff the fibers

This is the pieces of cotton sewn together

This is the chenille pieces cut apart

This is a chenille brush

This is what it looks like after it has been washed a few times.  Notice how the green already started to fluff and the pink didn’t.  Some fabrics are better for chenille then others.  Test this out beforehand.

This is what it looks like after brushing.

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