susan s.

I'd love to hear of any techniques for creating chenile and other frayed fabric looks.

Winnie

Rather than try to explain it I'd suggest you go to Google and type in -How to make chenille fabric. There are several sites that come up. Also if you are interested in making a rag quilt which has frayed seams, try Googling - making a rag quilt. Again yuo'll find sites to help you. Good luck.
Winnie

foxxigrani

Another source is the old Simply quilts shows. They showed how to do it on that one episode. I don't have the the site on this computer, if I think of it today, I will try and send it to you. But it looks simple, granted I have never tried it, but it looks easy......

Rita

foxxigrani

http://www.craftandfabriclinks.com/chenille/chenille_blanket.html

This is the site for home chenile, hope this comes thru for you if not email me and I will send it that way.

Rita

susan s.

yea, I got a great pattern for what I had in mind. Had no idea chenile took so much fabric to make. Simply Quilts was interesting. Didn't find any directions for chenile, but found a lot on quilts. There's alot more to wade through. When I have time. Thanks. Still open to more info & suggestions. : :D

patricej

this is the Simply Quilts episode you are looking for

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/crafting/article/0,1789,HGTV_3352_1393939,00.html

susan s.

O.K. I'll give it a look-see. I found a pretty cool site for for quilts and crafting under how to make rag quilts. It took me to a site called about.com. that you can specify all kinds of info to look for, like about quilts etc. I found pretty detailed instructions on marbeling fabric and some great pics. and free quilt patterns.

Quilt n stitch

I also saw an episode of Sewing with Nancy where she made chenille so that would also be a web site to check.