Felt flowers are so easy to make with the Cricut Maker. Use the rotary blade to easily cut all kinds of felt like butter! 

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I have loved making felt flowers with my Cricut Maker. I used them to make the felt flowers HERE, this felt flower wreath HERE,  this Hello Fall sign HERE and even a felt flower headband for my daughter HERE. When I first got my Maker I was using it to cut felt like crazy! I actually made this sign last Thanksgiving and then didn’t get around to posting it, and Thanksgiving has already snuck up on me again!

In today’s post I’m sharing my tips for making felt flowers and also the supplies you need to make this sign. {This post also has a video of other types of felt flowers: HERE. }

Felt Flowers with your Cricut Maker Tip 1

My first tip for making felt flowers is to use your rotary blade for the smoothest cut! This option is not available if you just select “Felt” as your material (it used to be, but Cricut changed the settings). You will need to select “Felt, Acrylic Fabric” or “Felt, Wool Fabric” for the rotary blade option to be available.

Using your rotary blade will ensure the smoothest cuts. I have used the fine tip blade for some felt (like the Cricut brand felt) but I prefer to always use the rotary blade. 

Felt Flowers with your Cricut Maker Tip 2

My second tip is to use Cricut transfer tape on your FabricGrip mat to keep it from getting covered in felt fibers.

If you cut a piece of transfer tape down to your mat size, place it on the mat sticky side up. Then place your felt on the mat. This will prevent your mat from getting covered in fibers!

I have had great success wiping my mats down with a Clorox wipe too. Simply scrub all the fibers off gently and let it dry.

Felt Flowers with your Cricut Maker Tip 3

Tip number three is to use good quality felt!

Most of the felt you find at craft stores is acrylic felt but some is not as good  of quality as others. You can tell if the felt is a better quality by the thickness and feel of it.   I’ve found my favorite craft store brand is JOANN’s felt.

If you want to use wool felt, I love Benzie Design’s felt that you order online.

Felt Flowers Supplies:

Cricut Maker
Cricut Rotary Blade
Cricut FabricGrip Mat
Cricut Iron-on in Rose Gold
Cricut EasyPress 2
Felt in green, red, orange and light tan, I bought mine from JOANN
Cricut Design Space file HERE
Darice Embroidery Hoop | 3 Pack 14 inch Wood hoop (3 Pack)
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Fabric of choice, 16 inches

Instructions:

Open the Design Space file HERE if you would like the same styles of flowers I used. I also like to search 3D flower or rolled flower in the Cricut Access library to find flowers.

(Unfortunately, I can’t share a file with the words I used because it’s a font I purchased called Girlfriend.)

Click on Make It and select “Felt, Acrylic Fabric”. Use your rotary blade and cut out your flowers.

For your words, make sure you mirror your image and select “Foil, Iron-on”

To assemble your rolled felt flowers, simply start at the end without the tab, and roll up, then secure the tab in place with hot glue.

For the poppy flower, see instructions on this post HERE.

To assemble the sign-

Glue the flowers and leaves to your embroidery hoop.

Use your Cricut EasyPress for your iron-on words. Make sure to look up the settings on their interactive chart HERE.

Place your fabric in your embroidery hoop, make sure it’s tight and trim the excess. Now you have a cute Thanksgiving sign!