Cricut Fabric Mat Cleaning

Bumps or bubbles in the fabric may result in imprecise cuts.

Cricut fabric mat cleaning. People are already finding it harder to keep their pink mats clean so i wanted to write a post about everything i ve learned about my mat. The mat will get threads from your material on it as you cut. The cleaning methods found on this page are not for the pink cricut fabric grip mat. These mats are meant to last for 25 40 uses but cleaning them can extend their life.

If your fabric is fairly wrinkled it is a good idea to iron it to remove any stubborn wrinkles. Cricut mats are sticky mats that are used in cricut machines. That s what i do with my other cricut mats but that is not what you want to do with the fabricgrip mat. Don t put anything wet including water on your pink fabric mats.

You ll find this guide useful when you need to re use an old cricut a silhouette mat or a cake mat that s used for baking. Without really thinking about it i would want to grab a wet wipe and scrub the mat off. They are for the blue green and purple cricut mats. It is a method that has been shared and can be done with both the green and blue cricut mats.

To clean your mat and rejuvenate its stickiness you can do light cleaning often and deeper cleaning when the mat has gotten excessively dirty. Step 2 placing your fabric on the mat grain. After the pink mat became a bit useless from the pile of fabric stars i cut out i decided to try using all natural baby wipe. Try using a baby wipe to clean the pink cricut fabricgrip mat.

All fabrics have what is called a grain. But how do you keep your mat clean. Once your fabricgrip cricut mat has lots of fibers and fabric strings on it it may not hold the fabric as well as it originally did. This is not a suggestion from cricut this is my suggestion.

Now what do you do when your mat gets dirty. The fabric mat needs to be treated differently than other mats when it comes to washing as well. 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 fabric to stick to it when cutting i recommend the 12 x 24 size mat for cutting fabric. A how to tutorial video to clean your fabric pink mats and make them last much longer.

A few of these are actually okay. How to clean cricut fabric mat. The fabric should lay very flat on the mat. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same.