cool that quilt looks good.
Is it possible to make the chenille shape on the block without doing it as an applique?
I've seen were someone on the internet showed how to make chenille strips. That is where you sew the layers together and cut them into strips, but the problem was they didn't explain any further on how to use them.
They suggested, or I got the impression that you take the strips and sew them onto your project in what ever shape you wanted to and then brushed them out after they are all sewn but again, I'm not sure because I didn't see anything written past the part of cutting them into strips to use.