Cricut Fabric Mat Cleaning

Without really thinking about it i would want to grab a wet wipe and scrub the mat off.

Cricut fabric mat cleaning.

These mats are meant to last for 25 40 uses but cleaning them can extend their life. This is not a suggestion from cricut this is my suggestion. 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.

Don t put anything wet including water on your pink fabric mats. 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. The cleaning methods found on this page are not for the pink cricut fabric grip mat. A how to tutorial video to clean your fabric pink mats and make them last much longer.

The cricut maker is purpose built for cutting fabric among hundreds of other materials and the fabric mat is essential for getting perfect fabric cuts. The fabric mat needs to be treated differently than other mats when it comes to washing as well. Just put your next material over the top and cut away. Now what do you do when your mat gets dirty.

Bumps or bubbles in the fabric may result in imprecise cuts. All fabrics have what is called a grain. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. How to clean cricut fabric mat.

To clean your mat and rejuvenate its stickiness you can do light cleaning often and deeper cleaning when the mat has gotten excessively dirty. The fabric should lay very flat on the mat. Try using a baby wipe to clean the pink cricut fabricgrip mat. The mat will get threads from your material on it as you cut.

That s what i do with my other cricut mats but that is not what you want to do with the fabricgrip mat. Step 2 placing your fabric on the mat grain. They are for the blue green and purple cricut mats. 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.

It is a method that has been shared and can be done with both the green and blue cricut mats. Cricut mats are sticky mats that are used in cricut machines. A few of these are actually okay. 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.