Cut Out Placemats

Use your Cricut cutting machine to make a set of gorgeous felt placemats.

Posted by Cat Morley

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Cricut sent us a Cricut Mini cutting machine to test out and each week, we'll be bringing you a new project to make. This week, we're using the Cricut to cut out felt and combining with the paper snowflake technique to make placemats.

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You Will Need (3 things)

  • Felt
  • Scissors
  • Cricut

Steps (11 steps, 20 minutes)

  1. 1

    Open up the placemats template in your Cricut-Craft Room. We'll start by making the largest placemat first, so select that layer.

  2. 2

    Plug in your Cricut to your computer. Remove the protective sheet from your cutting mat and stick down a rectangle a felt firmly to the mat. Set the blade depth to 5 and the pressure to 6 before clicking cut.

  3. 3

    Press Cut and watch your placemat take shape.

  4. 4

    Remove the excess felt, using a pair of scissors to neaten up any edges if needed and punch out the pre-cut holes around the edges.

  5. 5

    Repeat with your second colour of felt using the medium placemat template.

  6. 6

    Repeat with your third colour of felt using the smallest placemat template.

  7. 7

    You should now have three placemats varying in size.

  8. 8

    Fold one of the placemats in half and then in half again, like you would when making a paper snowflake and cut shapes out along the edges. Try triangles, squares and ovals.

  9. 9

    Unfold, to see how your cuts look and then fold in half again, so that you have a new edge to cut.

  10. 10

    Keep folding and cutting until you're satisfied with your design.

  11. 11

    Repeat with your other placemats and you're all done!