How To Use A Fabric Cutting Mat

A cricut cutting machine you can cut fabric on a cricut explore a cricut explore air or a cricut maker but the maker does the best job.

How to use a fabric cutting mat.

You do not want the fabric layers to shift. Cutting on the various diagonal lines will create angled pieces of fabric. Cutting mats are placed under the fabric to avoid damaging your work surface while quilting rulers can help you cut straight as well as provide precise measurements. Be sure that the ruler and fabric are both aligned horizontally on at right angle.

Cutting fabric along the horizontal and vertical lines will slice the fabric on the straight of grain. To cut with a rotary cutter keep the fabric layers and pattern if you are using that on the mat together with pattern weights. Things you need to cut fabric on a cricut explore or maker. A cricut cutting mat you can a pink fabricgrip mat my personal preference but you can also use a green standardgrip mat what matters most is that your mat is clean enough for your.

Repeat as many times as necessary. Place the fabric on the cutting mat fold near the bottom edge side to be squared on the left. This is a stronger mat made especially for use with the rotary blade only the cricut maker uses this blade. High quality self healing cutting mats last longer than other mat surfaces while our clear acrylic rulers come with easy to read markings for accurate measurements.

The last cricut cutting mat is the fabric grip mat. The most commonly used mat is rectangular double sided for general cutting on one side and the other for more precision cutting a rectangular mat often includes lines to help you cut angles easier along with markings that help line up fabric edges so you can accurately cut the correct size of strips patches and blocks. Each new fold makes inaccurate cuts more likely. Before placing the fabric on your mat be sure to cut it down to a size that will fit on the mat but does not extend outside of the adhesive area.

Line up the fold with one of the horizontal lines on the cutting mat or if your mat is unlined use a square rotary ruler. To cut fabric strips simply move over the ruler the desired width and make cut the fabric again to form a strip. The things you need to use the rotary cutter efficiently are mats the self healing mat or a hard surface mat and pattern weights. Look over the mat to note how it is marked with horizontal vertical and a variety of diagonal lines typically denoting 30 45 and 60 degree angles.

12 x 12 and 12 x 24 are the standard sizes for the adhesive area on the fabricgrip mat.