Cleaning Your Cutting Mat Elan

Pam gives a quick tip on how to use a simple school supply to clear a rotary cutting mat of embedded fibers from batting and fabric.

Cleaning your cutting mat elan.

These mats are meant to last for 25 40 uses but cleaning them can extend their life. To clean your mat and rejuvenate its stickiness you can do light cleaning often and deeper cleaning when the mat has gotten excessively dirty. Just make sure to read the instructions that come with the cleaning product. There are a few different ways to clean your mat.

Well regular cleaning of your olfa cutting mats will extend their use. How to clean a cutting mat september 20 2017 i love quilt as you go and use it for almost all of my quilts but cutting the batting squares and then trimming the finished blocks to size makes a real mess of your cutting mat. This happens all the time to me. Every now and then you will want to take a little scrubber like the kind used for dishes and brush off your mat to release any loose threads that get caught.

Simple steps to care for your cutting mat and how to clean your mat. Most people ask us how to clean their mats. You don t need to rub too hard. When you are in the groove of sewing and just cutting sewing cutting sewing you will find that all of a sudden your rotary cutting mat is full of lint.

The first step to restoring your cutting mat is to clean it. Cleaning may be all that you need to do. Once your cutting mat has been cleaned it may be sticky again so be sure to try these methods first. After cleaning no longer makes the mat sticky again there are also ways to add a new layer of stickiness.

Oh and you ll probably need to restick your mat afterwards. This article also explains why you shouldn t sharpen rotary cutter blades if you want them to keep cutting flawlessly. Caring for your self healing cutting mat is easy. When you re satisfied with how clean your cricut mat looks it s time to hang it up to dry.

Cleaning your cutting mat. I speed up the process a lot becuase i am constantly cutting batting felt or fleece on my mat too. Learn the best ways to care for your quilting supplies.