Cutting Fabric

[inthePottershand]

We are going to Family Camp and it is a cowboy theme. I am making our granddaughter a bandanna skirt with a white t-shirt. I want to cut out a cowboy boot from my SCAL on the Cricut in fabric. Does anyone know what settings I should use to cut fabric? Any suggestions would be helpful!
Thanks!

[pastda3]

I don't remember the settings, but I do remember that having a new sharp blade helped. Also, I think you will need to iron on some fusible interfacing or something to help stabilize the fabric. I can't remember what I used, but it worked really well and the fabric cut with no problems.

[sstehman]

Here is an excerpt from another post where Gj1 explained how to secure fabric. Never did this myself, but did remember seeing it. If you do a search on cutting fabric, you will find the whole topic.

Excerpt "put Heat & Bond on the back of the material before cutting. It can work and I have done it before but sometimes the other methods are really more simple in the long run. I believe I use a deep cut blade and actually taped the fabric to the mat so it would not shift and use a sticky mat."

[HeatherM]

i used fusible interfacing on a light cotton with my regular blade (Roland 45) and it cut like butter. my understanding is that some materials don't cut well though. HTH

[Carolien]

Look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOST04HJQxw

The video shows you how to cut fabrics with your cricut.

Google: cut fabric cricut machine youtube and other video links will appear.
With regards,
Carolien

[Adines]

Ladies, look at:
http://imperfectlybeautifulms.blogspot. ... ricut.html