For extra fuzzy materials like felt and fleece consider putting transfer tape behind your fabric before sticking it to the mat this will keep your mat free of fuzz.
Cricut fabric mat vs strong grip.
For use with cricut maker or cricut explore family machines and rotary blade or bonded fabric blade.
Designed to act as the interface between your material and your cricut machine each reusable mat holds your material in place as it s cut and still makes it easy to cleanly remove.
Now that you have your fabric and perhaps your bonding material what mat should you use when learning how to cut fabric with a cricut.
This has the best adhesion for fabric for both sticking it down as well as controlling the fray when removing your pieces from the mat.
This mat is perfect for cutting medium weight materials and it also has the perfect amount of grip that makes for easy removal of your material.
The fabric should lay very flat on the mat.
It s intended for use with the cricut maker machine which puts the pressure on the fabric to hold it into place as opposed to other cricut machines which rely on the mat to hold the material in place.
The green cricut standardgrip cutting mat is the mat that i use most often.
Hands down the best mat is the fabric grip mat.
A cricut mat is the surface where you cut all of your projects.
All fabrics have what is called a grain.
The fabricgrip mat combines increased strength and density plus a light adhesive to create beautifully cut fabrics with the rotary blade or bonded fabric blade.
Bumps or bubbles in the fabric may result in imprecise cuts.
This innovative cricut fabricgrip 12 x 12 mat is a unique solution for fabric projects.
Depending on the materials that you are working with you will need a different mat.
The fabricgrip mat is a reusable adhesive cutting mat that combines increased strength and density plus a light adhesive perfect for wide variety of fabrics.
Step 2 placing your fabric on the mat grain.
Use tweezers the cricut spatula or cricut s stronggrip transfer tape to clean fabric grip mats.
Mat to use with fabric.
1 reusable machine mat 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm use with specialty cardstock matboard and backed fabric formulated for best possible adhesion and longest life for cricut maker and cricut explore cutting machines.
Right now there are four different types of mats light grip blue standard grip green strong grip purple and fabric pink.
The standardgrip mat is perfect for a wide range of medium weight materials including.
Heavy cardstock glitter cardstock magnet material chipboard poster board fabric with stabilizer i have used all three of these grip mat types and found they are definitely great with each of the material types listed.