Cricut Fabric Mat Cleaning

These mats are meant to last for 25 40 uses but cleaning them can extend their life.

Cricut fabric mat cleaning.

Don t put anything wet including water on your pink fabric mats. Without really thinking about it i would want to grab a wet wipe and scrub the mat off. Try using a baby wipe to clean the pink cricut fabricgrip mat. A how to tutorial video to clean your fabric pink mats and make them last much longer.

But how do you keep your mat clean. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. They are for the blue green and purple cricut mats. 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. If your fabric is fairly wrinkled it is a good idea to iron it to remove any stubborn wrinkles. You ll save a perfectly good cricut mat a few dollars and it can be a fun project to boot. All fabrics have what is called a 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. Bumps or bubbles in the fabric may result in imprecise cuts. The fabric mat needs to be treated differently than other mats when it comes to washing as well. How to clean cricut fabric mat.

It is a method that has been shared and can be done with both the green and blue cricut mats. The fabric should lay very flat on the mat. Just put your next material over the top and cut away. Now what do you do when your mat gets dirty.

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 cleaning methods found on this page are not for the pink cricut fabric grip mat. Step 2 placing your fabric on the mat grain. A few of these are actually okay.

That s what i do with my other cricut mats but that is not what you want to do with the fabricgrip mat. The mat will get threads from your material on it as you cut. 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. 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.