Cleaning Rotary Cutting Mat

Learn the best ways to care for your quilting supplies.

Cleaning rotary cutting mat.

Simple steps to care for your cutting mat and how to clean your mat. Remember your cutting mat is not a coaster for your coffee cup or a spot to use your laptop. Drag the tape along the mat allowing the sticky tape to grab all that fuzz. Is your cutting mat in need of a cleaning.

This can cause the mat to crack. Rotary cutting fleece or batting is particularly hard on the mats. Except for ink stains those are a little tougher to soak your mat place it in a bathtub or container that is large enough so your mat can lie flat. Add a solution of cup white vinegar per gallon of cool water and let it soak for 15 to 20 minutes.

This article also explains why you shouldn t sharpen rotary cutter blades if you want them to keep cutting flawlessly. Store it flat not rolled up or standing on edge. You cannot simply brush these fibers off. I speed up the process a lot becuase i am constantly cutting batting felt or fleece on my mat too.

After all the no sew blankets i cut in december my mat needed some attention. Change the bending direction if necessary to get all of it. In a nutshell keep your mat clean moist flat away from heat sources and vary where you cut on the mat. 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.

They are still there even though it s hard to see them when the mat is flat. Slightly bend the cutting mat to open up the cuts in the surface. Many fibers get caught in the self healing crevasses as the blade cuts over it. Tips for prolonging the life of your self healing cutting mat.

Plus it should also remove any surface stains on the mat. Make sure the water is cool.