How to Cut Felt With the Cricut
The Cricut cutting machine is a scrapbook and decorative tool that uses digital technology and a needle-like cutting blade to cut exact images from paper, fabric, felt and other mediums. The advantage of the Cricut is that you can cut any size or shape of item imaginable without relying on stamps or hand cutting with scissors. The Cricut can work easily with felt as long as a stabilizer is added during the cutting process to prevent it from shifting. Use the felt pieces to make hair accessories, felt appliqués, cloth scrapbook accents or anything else you can think of.
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Things You'll Need
- Wool felt
- Scissors
- Iron-on stabilizer
- Iron and ironing board
- Cricut sticky mats
- Cricut deep cutting blade
- Adhesive lint roller
Instructions
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Iron the wool felt with a warm iron to remove any wrinkles. Cut the felt and stabilizer to the same size as the Cricut cutting mat.
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Place the stabilizer against one side of the felt. Iron the stabilizer to the felt using a warm heat iron. Hold the iron in place against each section for about 30 seconds to bond the two materials together.
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Put the felt on the Cricut cutting mat, stabilizer side down. Place the cartridge that you want to use with the felt inside the machine. Larger images work best. Felt is not recommended for images smaller than two inches square.
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Place the deep cutting blade inside the Cricut cutting area. Screw the blade in place to hold it still. Set the pressure to five, blade depth to six and speed to two. Feed the cutting mat into the Cricut machine.
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Set the desired image settings. Set the machine to multi-cut two, so that the machine will cut around every outline twice. This ensures that the machine will cut through the felt all of the way.
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Allow the machine to cut out the objects. Remove the stabilizer from the back of the felt and clean up any loose edges with scissors. Clean the machine and cutting mat with a lint roller to remove felt pieces.
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References
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