I made a western horse quilt for a friend. I had some suede type fabric I had used for something else and one edge was fringed. I cut that off and used it in one end of the quilt. It's been a long time but I think I birthed it but then sewed the fringe down to the quilt about 1/4" away so it wasn't so much in the face when you covered with it. Her kids just loved the fringes.