Can you cut fabric with spellbinders

One comment Re: hazardous workplace kitties. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. Overall Impressions: Once I got the hang of the paper layering, I was very pleased with the details and clean cuts that I was able to achieve with the Grand Calibur and dies.

I was also pleased with the quality of the machine and dies overall; both were very sturdy, and I never felt like I was going to break something while experimenting with different thicknesses and materials. To wrap things up, I wanted to share a complete project that would illustrate a practical sewing application for cutting fabric with a die cutting machine.

You can head on over to The Zen of Making to see the full tutorial! I will keep it in mind for some of my fabric crafty friends. I just googled how to cut fabric with Spellbinders and came up with this post!!

Thanks so much!! Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. About Press Advertise. Spellbinders Die Depth. Spellbinders Fabric Sandwich. Poly Lining Fabric Embossing. Spellbinders Edgeabilities Classic Scallop. Today I have had a root through my fabric boxes and chosen a few different types of fabric to see what results I could get and I was very pleased indeed.

For the testing I used a plain circle and a scalloped circle to make sure that I tested the intricate cutting capabilities on fabric. The previous sandwhich was obviously too thin to make an impression so I added two sheets of lightweight cardstock to act as a shim and thicken the sandwhich on top of the dies. Next I tried an upholstery fabric. The fabric that I chose had the feel of kitchen roller blinds or dining chair seat covers.

It is a heavy fibre and it almost felt as if the fibres were individually coated in a wipe-clean kind of surface — but not plasticized like oilcloth. This cut almost alll the way through but left one or two fibres visible as shown in the two images below.

The second time I used the cardstock shim as I did for the felt. This worked perfectly again as you can see here. This has a dense but lightweight cotton fibre weave and is one of the most readily available fabrics and I have a stack of it in a miriad of designs so need to find some ways of using it! I chose a very lightweight polycotton. So I tried the cardstock shim again.

After a few attempts I found that moving the cardstock to the lower part of the sandwhich, between the Cutting Plate and Fabric, worked wonders and the fabric simply slid out after the cut.

With this new sandwhich the cardstock gets cut at the same time as the fabric and I thought that it would add considerable cost if I kept using up cardstock in this way. I found that four sheets of copy paper worked as well as the two sheets of card so will likely use this in the future.

I then tried repeating all of the materials that I tried before and saw improvements in the cut on all of them, particularly the cotton and polycotton which had no fibres left attached and simply fell out of the dies after the cut.

So, after all of that my final trial was on denim. So that concludes all of the tests that I made. I hope you find this post useful and maybe even try some things out for yourself.

If you have any questions, or would like to share your own tips and ideas on cutting fabric with the Spellbinders Grand Calibur and dies, please feel free to comment below. Like Liked by 1 person.