Ive done blog posts before about how I cut fabric and felt with my ScanNCut, but on our Facebook group I am still reading comments that some people cannot cut these, so I thought I would do a video showing How I do mine which hopefully may help.
I hope its clear enough for you to see but I was filming it on my own, whilst trying to show the fabric and felt in the machine at the same time as trying to show how I chose the flower design and add a seem allowance layer! Also this video despite only being about 17 minutes long has taken the best part of 5 hours to upload, so I don’t really have the time to do it all again.
Just to clarify
I cut the fabric on Blade 4, Pressure 4, Speed 5 I cut the felt on Blade 7, Pressure 9, Speed 5 I used the regular mat and regular blade
I used HeatNBond Ultra and Vilene Bondaweb in my test to show how they both cut.
I made use of the flowers by making a door stop for my laundry door.
- Applelover53
- Apr 29, 2014
So today I’ve sold two of my appliqué cushions and thought I would cut some more fabric with the ScanNCut to replenish my stock.
I started cutting the fabric as I always do using iron on HeatNBond, but I found some Vilene Bondaweb in the draw that I must have had for years and never used.
So as a test I tried it on the back of some cotton fabric and cut it with the ScanNCut, it cut great, this stuff leaves almost no residue or glue on the back of your fabric, so if you have not tried fabric yet because you didn’t like the idea of having the HeatN bond glue left on the back give the. Bondaweb a go.
I ironed it onto a project and then machine stitched over it and it’s fine but you could use it for cutting quilting shapes too.
- Applelover53
- Apr 13, 2014
I thought I would try and cut hessian today with the ScanNCut I jumped straight it and went for it. I used the settings that I used recently for cutting felt and it cut a dream.
Regular mat, regular blade 7, pressure 9 , speed 5 , HeatNBond ultra ironed onto the back, with the paper backing removed and HNB side down onto the mat. I cut in one pass.
The photo shows the band for the hat and two flowers. The fabric was cut with regular mat, regular blade 4, pressure 4 , speed 5 and HNB again.
This is what I made with it, I’ve not used the flowers yet.
