There is a woman on YouTube named Laura who made a beautiful snowman quilt and she used 4 panels. I believe her chanel is Sew very easy, hopefully not giving you the wrong name. I just ordered 3 more Olaf panels so I can make it for my god daughter's grandson.

The one we played with in quilt club this month had 3 of the same panel with a different backing piece. And thin batting.

The quilt guild I belong to makes quilts for abused children. This really piques my curiosity and I plan to do it-soon. Thanks for the idea. I have already copied the instructions.

At a quilt show once, there was a chenille cutting tool. I didn't buy one, but bought the jacket pattern. Can't remember who was selling it. I'll search around my "collection" to find the name.

What happens if you use only one panel and several plain ones instead of all the matching panels? Do you lose the design or would that work? I'm thinking several layers of flannel might rag easier??

When I have seen the panels used, they were flannelette,
so there was no problem with the ragging process.

Using the same panels layered together,
you get a lovely shading effect that would not come through
if using different fabrics/colours on the layers.

Yesterday was tools day at my LQS. They demoed the chenile quilt with panels...4 panels, a piece of flannel for the base AND backing. If you use a seperate backing you can-t quilt it, so just cut the 4 rows of panels, square and bind. Super quick. Draw the cutting lines before sandwiching everything!

Made this for our grandson almost 4 yrs. ago now. I used 4 identical flannel panels and a camo backing (no batting) and then sewed the chenille rows. Just be careful when you cut that you don't cut through the last panel, which was the base, or the backing fabric. In this case, you would only chenille the top 3 layers. It came out plenty cuddly and warm with all those layers.
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Since the panel was too narrow, AFTER the panel was cut for chenille, I added the camo border by putting right sides of the border face down on the front, and put the back border with right sides facing the backing, and seamed. You can sew in the batting or just butt it to the seam allowance after each side is sewn. Then I FMQed the borders and bound. Hope this is clear. This picture was taken prior to washing.

You only use the panels on top as that is the pattern you want seen. I just finished two of these and used scrap fabric for the layers as only the edges are going to be seen. Make sure the color you want seen most is the first layer under the top panel.

I just saw a demo of this somewhere this week. She used 4 matching panels and a plain backing fabric (flannel I think.) Be sure to line up the panels exactly so the same pattern comes thru on all layers. (Put a pin thru all layers at the exact same point on the panel and pin. Do this in several places so that the pattern stays secure.) When cutting be sure you are only cutting the panels and not the backing. It give so much depth that you would not get by using just one or two panels. I want to do this soon as I collect/buy 4 of the same panel.