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I've been forever planning to try my hand at making faux chenille, but the process requires a clothes dryer, and we only very recently adquired one, so finally I could do it.
The process starts of course with the layering of fabrics, and since they were thin fabrics, I over did it and ended up with eighteen layers! Half of that would had been more than enough.
Then stitching the whole package on the diagonal en cutting the layers between the stitches.

That is a lot of work, but I couldn't find electric scissors in our little town.

This is the way it looks before washing.

And after washing and drying the result is a multicolored fluffy fabric that strongly reminds me of fordite, that wonderful layered stuff obtained from the dried up layers of paint in the automobil industry, therefore the name fordite. Fordite cabochons are used in jewelry, but they are very rare nowadays because of new painting techniques that don't leave residues.

Anyhow, my new chenille fabric together with some recycled leather are in the process of becoming a bag, I'll name it the fordite bag.

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