Some of you might remember my earlier post here about playing with my Silhouette Cameo cutter. Well, that was in January, and true this hasn't been a continuous or daily journey, but I must say it has been a journey.
First I must say that Martha Shiff, the moderator of the Silhouette Cameo facebook group is a goddess. Her patience and her support have been wonderful to me and many others. I must also say, I have used my cameo successfully for quite a few large solid images, with no problem at all. You have seen some of these in my dancer art quilts. But I decided in January to use the Cameo to cut out a very detailed, small circle that I had sketched. So first I had to learn how to get clean images into the cutter that were drawn with pencil, with eraser lines, that didn't translate into cut lines when creating a cut file. Then of course, I wanted many circles interconnected, so it is was about compound images and point editing... my head was exploding...
Next I had to learn how to treat the fabric, so that very thin segments with curves and points could be cut with clean and sharp edges. Along with that how to treat the mat, so that the fabric stuck enough, so those thin pieces wouldn't come up when the machine rollers rolled often them, back and forth, several times. Of course, there were the cut settings.... blades settings, cut speed, etc... Whew!
Well here are just a couple of the images that were the result of many hours of testing... I won't show you the two before this one.. lol... it was truly a birds nest!.
These pieces are only 10" across, so the average circle in these photos is about 4" in diameter, with all the cut outs, making some of the pieces only 1/8" thick.
I am writing this as the Cameo is cutting what I hope to be my final cut. I really want to use in my next art quilt (I hope it works, as I don't have any more of this particular batik... I failed the first 2 cuts!) It has been cutting for about 40 minutes now... Keep you fingers crossed!
First I must say that Martha Shiff, the moderator of the Silhouette Cameo facebook group is a goddess. Her patience and her support have been wonderful to me and many others. I must also say, I have used my cameo successfully for quite a few large solid images, with no problem at all. You have seen some of these in my dancer art quilts. But I decided in January to use the Cameo to cut out a very detailed, small circle that I had sketched. So first I had to learn how to get clean images into the cutter that were drawn with pencil, with eraser lines, that didn't translate into cut lines when creating a cut file. Then of course, I wanted many circles interconnected, so it is was about compound images and point editing... my head was exploding...
Next I had to learn how to treat the fabric, so that very thin segments with curves and points could be cut with clean and sharp edges. Along with that how to treat the mat, so that the fabric stuck enough, so those thin pieces wouldn't come up when the machine rollers rolled often them, back and forth, several times. Of course, there were the cut settings.... blades settings, cut speed, etc... Whew!
Well here are just a couple of the images that were the result of many hours of testing... I won't show you the two before this one.. lol... it was truly a birds nest!.
I am writing this as the Cameo is cutting what I hope to be my final cut. I really want to use in my next art quilt (I hope it works, as I don't have any more of this particular batik... I failed the first 2 cuts!) It has been cutting for about 40 minutes now... Keep you fingers crossed!
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