Cricut Fabric Mat Cleaning

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.

Cricut fabric mat cleaning. 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. 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. To clean your mat and rejuvenate its stickiness you can do light cleaning often and deeper cleaning when the mat has gotten excessively dirty.

Now what do you do when your mat gets dirty. The fabric should lay very flat on the mat. That s what i do with my other cricut mats but that is not what you want to do with the fabricgrip mat. You ll save a perfectly good cricut mat a few dollars and it can be a fun project to boot.

Just put your next material over the top and cut away. Without really thinking about it i would want to grab a wet wipe and scrub the mat off. 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. All fabrics have what is called a grain.

Bumps or bubbles in the fabric may result in imprecise cuts. The mat will get threads from your material on it as you cut. How to clean cricut fabric mat. Don t put anything wet including water on your pink fabric mats.

These mats are meant to last for 25 40 uses but cleaning them can extend their life. Try using a baby wipe to clean the pink cricut fabricgrip mat. 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. A how to tutorial video to clean your fabric pink mats and make them last much longer.

The cleaning methods found on this page are not for the pink cricut fabric grip mat. This is not a suggestion from cricut this is my suggestion. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. The fabric mat needs to be treated differently than other mats when it comes to washing as well.

But how do you keep your mat clean. If your fabric is fairly wrinkled it is a good idea to iron it to remove any stubborn wrinkles. A few of these are actually okay. Step 2 placing your fabric on the mat grain.