I have had my Cricut for quite some time and I made a goal for myself to use it more this year and to learn more about everything it can do. I saw on pinterest that you could cut fabric with the machine so I went on You Tube, watched a tutorial and then decided to try it myself. My son was celebrating his 2nd birthday and I wanted to try and make him a shirt. To see more detail about his party go HERE. I saw some cute ones on Etsy but have trouble dropping $20-$30 for a shirt that he would most likely only wear once or twice and outgrow too quickly.
The theme of my son's birthday was tractors and I had some leftover IH tractor brand fabric. We do not have a bias either way on what tractors we prefer and since that is what I had on hand, that is what I went with. The first step was to iron the fabric, which was a very important step - do not attempt to skip this step.
I purchased Heat n Bond Ultrahold from Walmart and I cut out the same size square that I had of my fabric. I then ironed it on with the fabric side down.
I then took my fabric with the heat n bond on the back and placed it fabric side up on my cricut cutting board and chose the appropriate images and sizes that I wanted and hit cut.
After the images were cut out, I went back to my iron and ironed on the image to the t-shirt and that was it! The t-shirt was complete and it turned out great! I went ahead and put his name on the back too for fun.
What fun things have you used your Cricut machine for?
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Did you have to set the cricut for a certain pressure to cut through the fabric or have it cut more than one time to prevent frays? I'm so going to try this!
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