Originally Posted by
irishrose
I would think you could put the extra layers of fabric behind your block, sew around the squirrel shape with a small stitch, then cut the lines for the chenille. I've only made a chenille scarf, so don't quote me. How will you change colors for Mr Squirrel doing it this way?
what I was thinking of doing is making the chenille strips myself so I could have them in the colors I want. Then after I piece the block, add the chenille strips on top of the body of the critter sort of like filling in the colors as needed to cover the body parts. Like the squirrel, I could use white over the belly, shades of gray on the other parts and a tad of black for eyes and nose.
I guess I'll have to play with this and see how it might work.