Mat to use with fabric.
Cricut fabric mat vs strong grip.
Step 2 placing your fabric on the mat grain.
Now that you have your fabric and perhaps your bonding material what mat should you use when learning how to cut fabric with a cricut.
1 reusable machine mat 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm use with specialty cardstock matboard and backed fabric formulated for best possible adhesion and longest life for cricut maker and cricut explore cutting machines.
Designed to act as the interface between your material and your cricut machine each reusable mat holds your material in place as it s cut and still makes it easy to cleanly remove.
For use with cricut maker or cricut explore family machines and rotary blade or bonded fabric blade.
Do not use soap and water or any other cleaning agent on a fabricgrip mat.
Bumps or bubbles in the fabric may result in imprecise cuts.
Strong grip mats come 1 in pack and are purple size available is 12x12 only.
Right now there are four different types of mats light grip blue standard grip green strong grip purple and fabric pink.
A cricut mat is the surface where you cut all of your projects.
This mat is perfect for cutting medium weight materials and it also has the perfect amount of grip that makes for easy removal of your material.
For extra fuzzy materials like felt and fleece consider putting transfer tape behind your fabric before sticking it to the mat this will keep your mat free of fuzz.
Heavy cardstock glitter cardstock magnet material chipboard poster board fabric with stabilizer i have used all three of these grip mat types and found they are definitely great with each of the material types listed.
It s intended for use with the cricut maker machine which puts the pressure on the fabric to hold it into place as opposed to other cricut machines which rely on the mat to hold the material in place.
Use tweezers the cricut spatula or cricut s stronggrip transfer tape to clean fabric grip mats.
The fabricgrip mat combines increased strength and density plus a light adhesive to create beautifully cut fabrics with the rotary blade or bonded fabric blade.
This innovative cricut fabricgrip 12 x 12 mat is a unique solution for fabric projects.
Hands down the best mat is the fabric grip mat.
The fabricgrip mat is a reusable adhesive cutting mat that combines increased strength and density plus a light adhesive perfect for wide variety of fabrics.
All fabrics have what is called a grain.
This has the best adhesion for fabric for both sticking it down as well as controlling the fray when removing your pieces from the mat.
The fabric should lay very flat on the mat.
The green cricut standardgrip cutting mat is the mat that i use most often.
